Mark 10:1-16
He left that place and went to the region of Judea and
beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his
custom, he again taught them.
Some Pharisees came,
and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He
answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to
write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ But Jesus said to them,
‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from
the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a
man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore
what God has joined together, let no one separate.’
Then in the house the
disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, ‘Whoever divorces
his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces
her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.’
People were bringing
little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples
spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to
them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such
as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not
receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.’ And he took
them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
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I'd like to have the chance to have a longer conversation with Jesus about divorce in today's world. And, I didn't think a woman could divorce her husband in Jesus' time? I'll need to look that one up.
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I'd like to have the chance to have a longer conversation with Jesus about divorce in today's world. And, I didn't think a woman could divorce her husband in Jesus' time? I'll need to look that one up.