Covenant Theology In Outline Form 36: Matthew 19 on Divorce & Remarriage
Shema Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. Historical Prologue 2 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” General Stipulations 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Specific Stipulations 7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” The Historical Regulation 8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you ...