This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we are joining El Grover Fricks to contextualize Jesus' teaching on divorce in its Jewish and Roman landscape.

I'm looking forward to it.

What do we need to contextualize about this, Elle?

We know everything there is to know.

It's so clear cut.

It's so black and white.

Easy peasy.

We've never hurt anybody with this passage or anything.

There's no reason to spend time here.

No, absolutely not.

And nevertheless, whoopsie daisies, here we are another regoing over the same straightforward things.

Oops, all context. Yeah.

Yeah, so Jesus has been laying it out for us. We are supposed to be Torah in the world. We are part of God's household, and so we are supposed to be

walking these things out. Jesus has divine authority, and this is how he's instructing us

to follow Torah, to interpret Torah. And so we've had anger. We had lust.

We had, that's it.

Now we're in divorce.

Now we're in marriage.

Let's be more positive.

We're talking about marriage today.

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