{"id":9777,"date":"2024-08-27T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9777"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:28:37","slug":"matthew-chapter-19-divorce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9777","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Chapter 19 Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"\\&quot;wp-block-heading\\&quot; wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>19&nbsp;<\/strong>When Jesus had finished saying these things,&nbsp;he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.&nbsp;<sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup>Large crowds followed him, and he healed them&nbsp;there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup>Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, \u201cIs it lawful for a man to divorce his wife&nbsp;for any and every reason?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f90606\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\"><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cHaven\u2019t you read,\u201d<\/mark>\u00a0he replied,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fc0101\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cthat at the beginning the Creator \u2018made them male and female,\u2019\u00a0<sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>and said, \u2018For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh\u2019?\u00a0<sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup>\u201cWhy then,\u201d they asked, \u201cdid Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus replied,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fb0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cMoses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.\u00a0<sup>9\u00a0<\/sup>I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup>The disciples said to him, \u201cIf this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus replied,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0101\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cNot everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given.\u00a0<sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others\u2014and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19&nbsp;When Jesus had finished saying these things,&nbsp;he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.&nbsp;2&nbsp;Large crowds followed him, and he healed them&nbsp;there. 3&nbsp;Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, \u201cIs it lawful for a man to divorce his wife&nbsp;for any and every reason?\u201d 4\u00a0\u201cHaven\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9777","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Matthew Chapter 19 Divorce &#8212; Jesus Did Say<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jesus on divorce\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matthew Chapter 19 Divorce &#8212; Jesus Did Say\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jesus on divorce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9777\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jesus Did Say\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-27T17:16:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-07T11:28:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Darrel Handgraaf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Darrel Handgraaf\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jesusdidsay.com\\\/?page_id=9777#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jesusdidsay.com\\\/?page_id=9777\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Darrel Handgraaf\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jesusdidsay.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bca89e41ac2235199a8dc64df6d3ed2c\"},\"headline\":\"Matthew Chapter 19 Divorce\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-27T17:16:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-10-07T11:28:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jesusdidsay.com\\\/?page_id=9777\"},\"wordCount\":280,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jesusdidsay.com\\\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jesusdidsay.com\\\/?page_id=9777\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jesusdidsay.com\\\/?page_id=9777\",\"name\":\"Matthew Chapter 19 Divorce &#8212; 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