Matthew 19:3

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Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

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  • Mark 10:2 : 2 Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
  • Heb 3:9 : 9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
  • Mark 12:13 : 13 Paying Taxes to Caesar Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.
  • Mark 12:15 : 15 But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them,“Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”
  • Luke 11:53-54 : 53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things, 54 plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.
  • John 8:6 : 6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth. 16 “I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel,“and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”
  • Matt 5:31-32 : 31 Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’ 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
  • Matt 16:1 : 1 The Demand for a Sign Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
  • Matt 22:16-18 : 16 They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying,“Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You do not court anyone’s favor because you show no partiality. 17 Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” 18 But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said,“Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?
  • Matt 22:35 : 35 And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

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  • Mark 10:2-5
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    2Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

    3He answered them,“What did Moses command you?”

    4They said,“Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”

    5But Jesus said to them,“He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

  • Matt 19:4-10
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    4He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

    7They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

    8Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

    9Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

    10The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

    32But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

  • Mark 10:9-12
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    9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

    10In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

    11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

    12And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

  • Luke 16:18
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    18“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Mark 8:11
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    11The Demand for a Sign Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

  • Matt 16:1
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    1The Demand for a Sign Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

  • Matt 22:34-35
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    34The Greatest Commandment Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

    35And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

  • Matt 22:41
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    41The Messiah: David’s Son and Lord While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question:

  • Matt 22:15
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    15Paying Taxes to Caesar Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

  • Mark 2:24
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    24So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

  • John 8:3
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    3The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

  • Matt 22:17-18
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    17Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

    18But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said,“Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?

  • Deut 24:1
    72%

    1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

  • Luke 6:2
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    2But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

  • Luke 20:22-23
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    22Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?”

    23But Jesus perceived their deceit and said to them,

  • Luke 14:3
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    3So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

  • Matt 19:2
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    2Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

  • Matt 15:1
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    1Breaking Human Traditions Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

  • Mark 12:18
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    18Marriage and the Resurrection Sadducees(who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

  • Mark 12:13
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    13Paying Taxes to Caesar Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

  • Mark 3:6
    70%

    6So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

  • Deut 24:3
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    3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

  • Matt 12:2
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    2But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”

  • Luke 11:53
    69%

    53When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

  • Luke 20:34
    69%

    34So Jesus said to them,“The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

  • Luke 20:27-28
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    69%

    27Marriage and the Resurrection Now some Sadducees(who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

    28They asked him,“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

  • Matt 15:3
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    3He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Matt 15:12
    68%

    12Then the disciples came to him and said,“Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?”

  • Mark 6:18
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    18For John had repeatedly told Herod,“It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

  • Matt 14:4
    68%

    4because John had repeatedly told him,“It is not lawful for you to have her.”

  • Luke 20:2
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    2and said to him,“Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who is it who gave you this authority?”

  • John 8:5
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    5In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?”