Matthew 19:1-6

Teaching About Divorce

1 Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from n Galilee and o entered p the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2 And q large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 And Pharisees came up to him and r tested him by asking, s "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?" 4 He answered, t "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, u 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and v the two shall become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. w What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 17:24
    When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the tax?
  2. Cross References
    Matthew 19:1 - 9
    Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
    Mark 10:1 - 12
    And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
  3. Cross References
    Luke 9:51
    When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
    Luke 17:11
    On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
    John 10:40
    He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
    Matthew 4:25
    And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
  4. Cross References
    Matthew 19:1 - 9
    Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
    Mark 10:1 - 12
    And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
  5. Cross References
    Matthew 12:15
    Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all
  6. Cross References
    John 8:6
    This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 5:31
    "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 1:27
    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
    Genesis 2:18
    Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.
    Genesis 2:21 - 23
    So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
    Genesis 5:2
    Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
    Matthew 21:16
    And they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?
  9. Cross References
    Ephesians 5:31
    "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
    Genesis 2:24
    Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
  10. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 6:16
    Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh.
    Malachi 2:15
    Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
  11. Cross References
    Genesis 2:24
    Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
  12. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 7:10
    To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband
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