Ewangelia Mateusza 19:4

Biblia Tysiąclecia

A on odpowiadając rzekł im: Nie czytaliście, iż ten, który stworzył na początku człowieka, mężczyznę i niewiastę uczynił je?

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
A on odpowiadając rzekł im: Nie czytaliście, iż ten, który stworzył na początku człowieka, mężczyznę i niewiastę uczynił je?

Biblia Przekład Toruński
4 A On w odpowiedzi, rzekł im: Czy nie czytaliście, że Ten, który stworzył, od początku uczynił ich mężczyzną i kobietą?

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
A On odpowiedział: Czy nie czytaliście, że Stwórca od początku stworzył człowieka jako mężczyznę i kobietę?

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
A on odpowiadając, rzekł im: Czy nie czytaliście, że Ten, który stworzył, na początku męskim i żeńskim ich uczynił ?

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
A on im odpowiedział: Nie czytaliście, że ten, który stworzył ich na początku, uczynił ich mężczyzną i kobietą?

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A on odpowiedziawszy rzekł im: Nie czytaliście, iż Stworzyciel od początku mężczyznę i niewiastę uczynił je?

Biblia Warszawska
A On, odpowiadając, rzekł: Czyż nie czytaliście, że Stwórca od początku stworzył mężczyznę i kobietę?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Have: Matthew 12:3, Matthew 21:6, Matthew 21:42, Matthew 22:31, Mark 2:25, Mark 12:10, Mark 12:26, Luke 6:3, Luke 10:26

that: Genesis 1:27, Genesis 5:2, Malachi 2:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:19 - two wives Deuteronomy 24:5 - a man 1 Chronicles 14:3 - took 2 Chronicles 24:3 - two wives Matthew 9:13 - go Matthew 21:16 - have 1 Corinthians 14:20 - malice

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he answered and said unto them,.... Not by replying directly to the question, but by referring them to the original creation of man, and to the first institution of marriage, previous to the law of Moses;

have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female? This may be read in Genesis 1:27 and from thence this sense of things collected; that God, who in the beginning of time, or of the creation, as Mark expresses it, made all things, the heavens, and the earth, and all that is therein, and particularly "man", as the Vulgate Latin, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel supply it here, made the first parents of mankind, male and female; not male and females, but one male, and one female; first, one male, and then, of him one female, who, upon her creation, was brought and married to him; so that in this original constitution, no provision was made for divorce, or polygamy. Adam could not marry more wives than one, nor could he put away Eve for every cause, and marry another: now either the Pharisees had read this account, or they had not; if they had not, they were guilty of great negligence and sloth; if they had, they either understood it or not; if they did not understand it, it was greatly to their reproach, who pretended to great knowledge of the Scriptures, and to be able to explain them to others; and if they did understand it, there was no need for this question, which therefore must be put with an evil design.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he answered and said ... - Instead of referring to the opinions of either party, Jesus called their attention to the original design of marriage, to the authority of Moses an authority acknowledged by them both.

Have ye not read? - Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:21-22. “And said, For this cause,” etc., Genesis 2:24. That is, God, at the beginning, made but one man and one woman: their posterity should learn that the original intention of marriage was that a man should have but one wife.

Shall leave his father and mother - This means, shall bind himself more strongly to his wife than he was to his father or mother. The marriage connection is the most tender and endearing of all human relations more tender than even that bond which unites us to a parent.

And shall cleave unto his wife - The word “cleave” denotes a union of the firmest kind. It is in the original taken from gluing, and means so firmly to adhere together that nothing can separate them.

They twain shall be one flesh - That is, they two, or they that were two, shall be united as one - one in law, in feeling, in interest, in affection. They shall no longer have separate interests, but shall act in all things as if they were one - animated by one soul and one wish. The argument of Jesus here is, that since they are so intimately united as to be one, and since in the beginning God made but one woman for one man, it follows that they cannot be separated but by the authority of God. Man may not put away his wife for every cause. What God has joined together man may not put asunder. In this decision he really decided in favor of one of the parties; and it shows that when it was proper, Jesus answered questions without regard to consequences, from whatever cause they might have been proposed, and however much difficulty it might involve him in. Our Lord, in this, also showed consummate wisdom. He answered the question, not from Hillel or Shammai, their teachers, but from Moses, and thus defeated their malice.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 19:4. He which made them at the beginning — When Adam and Eve were the first of human kind.

Made them male and female — Merely through the design of matrimonial union, that the earth might be thus peopled. To answer a case of conscience, a man should act as Christ does here; pay no regard to that which the corruption of manners has introduced into Divine ordinances, but go back to the original will, purpose, and institution of God. Christ will never accommodate his morality to the times, nor to the inclinations of men. What was done at the beginning is what God judged most worthy of his glory, most profitable for man, and most suitable to nature.