061: Divorce & Remarriage pt 9: The NT Teaching on Remarriage pt 3 - Mk 10 & Lk 16

I finish up my examination of Jesus’ teaching on remarriage in the Synoptic Gospels. The brief version in Luke 16 rehashes Jesus’ teaching found in Matthew and Mark, so I focused my attention on Mark 10. Mark’s version is unique in two ways: (1) It is the only account to address a woman who divorces her husband, and (2) it specifies that the man who unjustly divorces his wife and remarries commits adultery against his ex-wife. This is important because it invalidates one interpretive approach to Jesus’ teaching, namely understanding it in light of the OT teaching on adultery. I demonstrate that Jesus’ definition of adultery differed from the OT definition, and thus we should not use the OT definition as a filter for understanding Jesus. To do so would actually cause us to misunderstand Jesus. 

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