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Matthew 19:3
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Some Pharisees approached him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?”
The Pharisees also came vnto him, tempting him, and saying vnto him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife for euery cause?
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?"
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to trick him. They asked, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any reason he chooses?"
And Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
Then came vnto him the Pharises tempting him, & saying to him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife vpon euery occasion?
Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?"
And some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?"
Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
Some Pharisees wanted to test Jesus. They came up to him and asked, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Some Pharisees came to Jesus. They tried to make him say something wrong. They asked him, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any reason he chooses?"
And the Pharisees came up to him and were tempting him and saying, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?
Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him by asking, "Does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife for whatever reason he wishes?"
And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.
And the Pharisees came near to Him, tempting Him, and saying to Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every reason?
And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Perushim came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
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And the Pharishee approached him, and, tempting him, propounded to him whether it was lawful for a man to send away his wife for every cause.
And Pharisees came to him, and tempted him and said: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?
The pharisees also came vnto hym, temptyng hym, and saying vnto hym: Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wyfe, for euery cause?
And there came unto him Pharisees, tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Then came some of the Pharisees to Him to put Him to the proof by the question, "Has a man a right to divorce his wife whenever he chooses?"
And Farisees camen to him, temptynge him, and seiden, Whether it be leueful to a man to leeue his wijf, for ony cause?
And Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?
The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?"
The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: "Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
The proud religious law-keepers came to Jesus. They tried to trap Him by saying, "Does the Law say a man can divorce his wife for any reason?"
Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"
And there came unto him Pharisees, testing him, and saying, - Whether is it allowed a man to divorce his wife, for every cause?
And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
Then came vnto him the pharises temtinge him and sayinge to him: Ys it lawfull for a man to put awaye his wyfe for all maner of causes?
And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'
Then came vnto him the Pharises & tepted him, & sayde vnto him: Is it laufull for a man to put awaye his wife for eny maner of cause?
The Pharisees likewise came to him, and maliciously propos'd this question, may a man lawfully put away his wife at discretion?
One day the Pharisees were badgering him: "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
Some of the religious know-it-alls tried to corner him with some fancy talkin'. They asked, "Don't you think a man should be able to bust up his marriage for whatever reason he wants?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
tempting: Matthew 16:1, Matthew 22:16-18, Matthew 22:35, Mark 10:2, Mark 12:13, Mark 12:15, Luke 11:53, Luke 11:54, John 8:6, Hebrews 3:9
Is it: Matthew 5:31, Matthew 5:32, Malachi 2:14-16
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:24 - and they shall be one flesh Malachi 2:16 - the Lord Matthew 12:10 - Is it Matthew 22:18 - Why Mark 8:11 - Pharisees 1 Peter 3:7 - ye
Cross-References
Lot went out to them and stood in the doorway, closing the door behind him,
Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Please, let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them what seems good to you; but don't do anything to these men, since they are guests in my house."
and looked out toward S'dom and ‘Amora, scanning the entire plain. There before him the smoke was rising from the land like smoke from a furnace!
But when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
The child grew and was weaned, and Avraham gave a great banquet on the day that Yitz'chak was weaned.
"‘For seven days you are to eat matzah — on the first day remove the leaven from your houses. For whoever eats hametz [leavened bread] from the first to the seventh day is to be cut off from Isra'el.
They baked matzah loaves from the dough they had brought out of Egypt, since it was unleavened; because they had been driven out of Egypt without time to prepare supplies for themselves.
Gid‘on went in, cooked a young goat and made matzot from a bushel of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them out to him under the pistachio tree and presented them.
The woman had a fattened calf in the house; she hurried to slaughter it; then she took flour, kneaded it and baked matzah with it.
One day Elisha visited Shunem, and a well-to-do woman living there pressed him to stay and eat a meal. After this, whenever he came through, he stopped there for a meal.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The Pharisees also came unto him,.... Either from the places round about, or from Jerusalem: these came unto him, not for the sake of learning, or to be instructed by him; but as spies upon him, to observe what he said and did, and watch every opportunity to expose him to the contempt and hatred of the people;
tempting him with a question about divorces, in order to ensnare him:
and saying to him, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? be it ever so trivial, as said the school of Hillell: for there was a difference between the school of Shammai and the school of Hillell about this matter; the former insisted that a man might not put away his wife but in case of uncleanness; but the latter allowed putting away for very trifling things; as if she spoiled her husband's food by over roasting, or over salting it; and, as one of the doctors say, if he found another woman that was more beautiful than her; see Gill "Mt 5:32". This question being now agitated in the schools, they artfully put to Christ; not for information, but with a view to reproach him in some way or other; and that he might incur the resentment of one party or another, as he should answer. They might argue thus with themselves, and hope to succeed in this manner; should he be on the side of the school of Shammai, which was the weakest side, and less popular, as they had reason to believe he would, he would then expose himself to the resentment of the school of Hillell, and all on that side the question; should he take the part of Hillell, he would make the school of Shammai his enemies; should he forbid putting away of wives, which Moses allowed, they would then traduce him as contrary to Moses, and his law, which could not fail of setting the people against him; and should he consent to it, they would charge him with contradicting himself, or with inconstancy in his doctrine, since he had before asserted the unlawfulness of it, but in case of adultery; and should he abide by this, they might hope to irritate the men against him, who would think their liberty granted by Moses was entrenched on; as, on the other hand, should he, according to the question, admit of putting away for every cause, the women would be provoked at him, who would be left to the uncertain humour and caprice of their husbands; so that either way they hoped to get an advantage of him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Pharisees came - See the notes at Matthew 3:7.
Tempting him - This means, to get him, if possible, to express an opinion that should involve him in difficulty.
Is it lawful ... - There was the more art in the captious question which they proposed, as at that time the people were very much divided on the subject. A part, following the opinions of Hillel, said that a man might divorce his wife for any offence, or any dislike he might have of her. See the notes at Matthew 5:31. Others, of the school of Shammai, maintained that divorce was unlawful except in case of adultery. Whatever opinion, therefore, Christ expressed, they expected that he would involve himself in difficulty with one of their parties.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 19:3. Tempting him — Trying what answer he would give to a question, which, however decided by him, would expose him to censure.
Is it lawful - for every cause? — Instead of αιÏιαν, fault, cause, reason, three MSS. and the Coptic version read αμαÏÏιαν, sin or transgression: this was probably the original reading-the first syllable being lost, αÏÏιαν alone would remain, which a subsequent transcriber would suppose to be a mistake for αιÏιαν, and so wrote it; hence this various reading. What made our Lord's situation at present so critical in respect to this question was: At this time there were two famous divinity and philosophical schools among the Jews, that of SHAMMAI, and that of HILLEL. On the question of divorce, the school of Shammai maintained, that a man could not legally put away his wife, except for whoredom. The school of Hillel taught that a man might put away his wife for a multitude of other causes, and when she did not find grace in his sight; i.e. when he saw any other woman that pleased him better. See the case of Josephus, mentioned in Clarke's note on "Matthew 5:31", and Calmet's Comment, vol. i. part ii. p. 379. By answering the question, not from Shammai or Hillel, but from Moses, our blessed Lord defeated their malice, and confounded their devices.
