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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: God’s Pattern for Marriage
Description: Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”Mark 10:2The purpose of the Pharisees’ question is to test Jesus. Their questions always have an angle. They ask Jesus about divorce, but Jesus answers with teaching about marriage.
Later, when the disciples ask about divorce, He answers them in private (10:10). This is significant. Jesus did not come to load guilt on people for their past failures. Remember how He spoke to the woman of Samaria who had gone through five divorces. Jesus...