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Teaching about Divorce

10 He left that place and went to the region of Judea and[a] beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him, and, as was his custom, he again taught them.(A)

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  1. 10.1 Other ancient authorities lack and

40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.

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He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:(A)

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Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”(A)

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34 As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.(A)

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Jesus Ministers to Crowds of People

23 Jesus[a] went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news[b] of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.(A)

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  1. 4.23 Gk He
  2. 4.23 Gk gospel

33 They have turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I have taught them persistently, they would not listen and accept correction.(A)

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20 Jesus answered, “I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.

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And he was amazed at their unbelief.

The Mission of the Twelve

Then he went about among the villages teaching.(A)

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Jesus Calls Levi

13 Jesus[a] went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them.(A)

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  1. 2.13 Gk He

Teaching about Divorce

19 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.(A) Large crowds followed him, and he cured them there.(B)

Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?”(C) He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’(D) and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?(E) So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”(F) He said to them, “It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”[a](G)

10 The[b] disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given.(H) 12 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

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  1. 19.9 Other ancient authorities lack and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery
  2. 19.10 Other ancient authorities read His

Epilogue

Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs.(A)

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