2And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
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And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: …
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
Commentary
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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