Matthew 19:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"

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Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.

where your fathers put me to the proof, and for forty years felt what I could do.

(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.

and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him.

Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband —