Matthew 19:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 19

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

⁴And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 19:4 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Matthew 19:3 Matthew 19:5 →

Original word meaning

— of 17

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 2:23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Malachi 2:15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Luke 10:26
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

Topics

Betrothal Bigamy Bill of Divorce Concubinage Courtship Divorce Jesus, the Christ Marriage

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-12)

We have here the law of Christ in the case of divorce, occasioned, as some other declarations of his will, by a dispute with the Pharisees. So patiently did he endure the contradiction of sinners, that he turned it into instructions to his own disciples! Observe, here I. The case proposed by the Pharisees (Matt. 19:3); Isa. it lawful for a man to put away his wife? This they asked, tempting him, n…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female--or better, perhaps, “He that made them made them from the beginning a male and a female.”