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29 kwi 2024 · While his teaching seems to clearly prohibit almost all divorce and cast post-divorce remarriage as an act of adultery, there is good reason to look deeper into the larger biblical narrative. When we hear Jesus' words on this issue within the biblical narrative, two key points will emerge.
He begins with Matthew 1:18–25 and Joseph’s intention to divorce Mary prior to their marriage. To be engaged involved an “inchoate marriage” (p. 10) that transferred a woman from her parents’ to her husband’s authority as they awaited the wedding.
18 mar 2020 · What did it mean to be married in the first century? What happened when unhappy couples wanted to split? Let's take a look at marriage and divorce in the days of Jesus! I hope this information will help you understand the scriptures, add historical realism to your biblical fiction, or simply satisfy your curiosity!
24 maj 2016 · “It is plausible, even probable, that all of Jesus’ statements about adultery, in respect to divorce and remarriage, were given in the context of someone divorcing one person with the express aim of marrying another particular person (Matt. 19:9; Mark 10:11-12; Luke 16:18).
1 lut 2022 · Based on Matthew 5:20-21 and 19:3-12, Jesus has more strict view of divorce than other Jewish teachers in the first century. Many Jewish teachers in the first century were open to divorce based on their interpretation of the only relevant text of divorce in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 24:1-4.
28 kwi 2009 · For as we have seen, Jesus in fact did allow for divorce on the ground of porneia. Yet Laney will not be disposed of so easily. His own idea is that porneia means “illicit marriages, incest,” and, therefore, the exception clause simply permits an illicit marriage to be legally ended.
29 lut 2012 · In the first, Matthew quotes Jesus as saying: “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, except on the grounds of porneia (sexual immorality), makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” (Matthew 5:31-32).
