Yet again, Jesus is drawn into an attempted entrapment debate on the topic of divorce. His response about the divine design behind marriage is as countercultural to the Jewish audience of his day as it is to the cultural attitudes towards marriage in our own day. As he addresses marriage and divorce in his rebuttal to the Pharisees and his teaching to his disciples, we will be both challenged and encouraged as he speaks into our own situation wherever we find ourselves today.

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