Mark 10:1-5

    Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.

    Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

    "What did Moses command you?" he replied.

    They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away."

    "It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied. 

  

Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.

Mark 2:13 

    Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them.

Mark 6:34  

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. so he began teaching them many things. 

 

Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"  "What did Moses command you?" he replied. They said "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away."  

Deuteronomy 24:1  

    If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, ...  (see Deuteronomy 24:1-4)

Matthew 5:31  

    "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' "  (see Matthew 5:31-32)

Isaiah 50:1  

    This is what the LORD says:

"Where is your mother's certificate of divorce

    with which I sent her away? 

Or to which of my creditors

    did I sell you?

Because of your sins you were sold;

    because of your transgressions your mother was sent 

    away."

Jeremiah 3:8  

"I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery."  (see Jeremiah 2-3)

Malachi 2:16  

    "The man who hates and divorces his wife," says the LORD, the God of Israel, does violence to the one he should protect." says the LORD Almighty.

    So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful."  

    (see Malachi 2:10-16)

 

"It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied.  

Psalm 95:8-9  

"Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, 

    as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,

where your ancestors tested me;

    they tried me, though they had seen what I did."  

    (see Exodus 17:7, all Psalm 95)

Hebrews 3:15  

As it has been said:

    "Today, if you hear his voice,

        do not harden your hearts

        as you did in the rebellion."  (see Hebrews 3:7-19) 

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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