And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.
And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”
The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him.
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”
“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
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