Covenant Theology In Outline Form 36: Matthew 19 on Divorce & Remarriage
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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 to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
- The Present Stipulation
9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
——> THERE IS NO CHANGE <—- which is consistent with the Sermon On the Mount
Renewal, Document Clause, Witnesses, Victory Statement
10 The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. 12 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.
Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”
(Matthew 19:1–13, ESV)
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