On my big video where I taught through the issue of divorce and remarriage and what the Bible teaches about it,

I got the following question from Tatiana.

Tatiana says, also you have in this video said adultery, abandonment, and abuse, lots of ways out of marriage are exceptions to divorce and remarry.

Why would the disciples be shocked if that's what Jesus truly said?

Now what she's referring to is here is Matthew chapter 19 verse 10. The disciples are

shocked by what Jesus says. Here's what Jesus says and then we have to explain if

we're going to interpret Jesus' words correctly, we have to explain why did this shock them, right?

This is just called interpreting things in context.

I do need to explain this, so this is a good question.

He says to them, here's Jesus' teaching.

Because of your hardness of hearts, Moses allows 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. This is the shocking statement of Jesus. This is the thing that shocks

them and here's the disciples, here's their response. The disciples said to him, if such

is the case of a man with a wife is better not to marry and their response is it's pretty shocked right

they're they're tripping out on Jesus like hey if I can't get divorced you know then I

should just not get married in the first place.

So let's talk about why they were shocked because again my interpretation of what

Jesus meant should explain the extreme response of the disciples.

All right my short answer to this question is yes this my interpretation does

explain why the disciples are shocked because in their context Jesus is

removing divorce as the right of a husband which is pretty much what their view was at the

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