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Having crossed the Jordan, Jesus teaches the assembled crowd in his customary way, answering a question from the Pharisees about divorce. C. M. Tuckett suggests that Mark 8:34-10:45 constitutes a broad section of the gospel dealing with Christian discipleship and that this pericope on divorce (verses 1-12) "is not out of place" within it, although he notes that some other commentators have ...
According to the synoptic Gospels, Jesus emphasized the permanence of marriage (see Mark 10 at verses 1 to 12, [2] Matthew 19; [3] Luke 16:18) [4] but also its integrity. In the Gospel of Mark , Jesus says "Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
A very similar pronouncement on divorce is made by Jesus at Luke 16:18 and Mark 10:11, however neither of those two make an exception for πορνεία /porneia. Paul of Tarsus quotes Jesus ("not I but the Lord") in 1 Corinthians 7:10–11 with no exceptions granted although he ("I and not the Lord") goes on to give exceptions .
For example, according to Luke 2:11 Jesus was the Christ at his birth, but in Acts 2:36 he becomes Christ at the resurrection, while in Acts 3:20 it seems his messiahship is active only at the parousia, the "second coming"; similarly, in Luke 2:11 he is the Saviour from birth, but in Acts 5:31 [47] he is made Saviour at the resurrection; and he ...
The Greek word here translated as divorce is aphiemi, and the only other time it appears is in 1 Corinthians 7:11 where Paul uses it to describe the legal separation of a man and wife. Almost all modern translators today feel that divorce is the best word. Today, versions that do not use the word divorce do so for doctrinaire reasons. This ...
The evangelist, Luke, begins his "orderly account" with the following statement: . 1 Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very ...
In 2001, Crossway published the English Standard Version (ESV), its revision of the 1971 text edition of the RSV. [14] In comparison to the RSV, the ESV reverts certain disputed passages to their prior rendering as found in the ASV. [a] Unlike the NRSV, the ESV, depending on the context, prefers to use gender-inclusive language sparingly. [17]
The World English Bible (WEB) is an English translation of the Bible freely shared online. [5] The translation work began in 1994 [4] and was deemed complete in 2020. [2] Created by Michael Paul Johnson with help from volunteers, [1] [6] the WEB is an updated revision of the American Standard Version from 1901.