Section E

AVOID OVER-STRESS ON LAW EXTERNALS

 

Matthew 19:3 - 25:46

From  "Brother" to "Least"

 

Paragraphs, sometimes with Parts A & B, have "hooks" that are a version of "Jesus said".

Also there's a summary statement at the end

 

Ch 19:1  And it came to pass when ended the Jesus words these, he removed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judaea across the Jordan. 2 And followed him crowds many, and he healed them there.

Be Wary of

 

1.         Selfish use of law

19:3-12

.. Pharisees - re divorce

 

19:3 And approached to him Pharisees tempting him and saying: If it is lawful to dismiss the wife of him for every cause? 4 And he answering said: not Did ye read that the one creating from the beginning male and female made them? 5 And he said: For the sake of this shall lave a man the(his) father and the(his) mother and shall cleave to the wife of him, and shall be the two in flesh one; 6 so as no longer are they two but flesh one. What therefore God yoked together a man let not separate. 77. They say to him: Why then Moses did enjoin to give a document of divorce and to dismiss? 8 He says to them Moses in view of the obduracy of you allowed you to dismiss the wives of you;

but from the beginning not it has been so. 9 But I say to you that whoever dismisses the wife of him not of(for) fornication and marries another, commits adultery. 10 Say to him the disciples; If so is the cause of the an with the wife, it is not expedient to marry. 11 And he said to them: Not all men grasp saying this, but those to whom it has be given. 12 For there are eunuchs who from the womb of a mother were born so, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men and there are eunuchs who made eunuchs themselves on account of the kingdom of the heavens. The one being able to grasp it let him grasp.

 

(Note: Literal translation of Revised Standard Version 1988)

 

2          Belittling of children

19:13-15

 Children

 

19:13 The were brought to him children that the(his) hands he should put them and prayer. but the disciples rebuked them. 14 But Jesus said: Permit the children and do

not prevent them to come unto me. for of such is the kingdom of the heavens. 15 And putting on the his hands on them he went thence.