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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Jesusâ High View of Marriage
Description: [Jesus said,] âWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.âMark 10:9Jesusâ high view of marriage was very different from the prevailing ideas of the time, where divorce had become common.
Bishop Ryle writes about the âabsurd and frivolous causesâ for which the Jews allowed divorce, citing rabbinical texts of the day: âIf the wife cooks her husbandâs food poorly⌠she is to be put away.â
How does Jesus view this? He makes it clear that remarriage after a divorce would be adultery (10:11-12), because even if the relationship i...