Matthew 19:4

He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

In Context

3And the Pharisees came to him to tempt him, and said to him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

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Cross References

Matthew 12:3But he said to them: Have you not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry?

Matthew 21:42Jesus said to them: Did you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner?

Mark 2:25And he said to them: Did you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those who were with him?

Matthew Henry on Matthew 19:4-13

The Law of Divorce. 3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put… Read the whole commentary →

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