11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
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It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: …
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Our Lord Jesus was an itinerant Preacher, did not continue long in a place, for the whole land of Canaan was his parish, or diocese, and therefore he would visit every part of it, and give instructions to those in the remotest corners of it. Here we have him in the coasts of Judea, by the further side of Jordan eastward, as we found him, not long since, in the utmost borders westward, near Tyre an…
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