Matthew 5:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: ”

Matthew 5:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It hath been said ... - That is, by Moses, Deuteronomy 24:1-2 . The husband was directed, if he put his wife away, to give her a bill of divorce, that is a certificate of the fact she had been h...
Matthew 5:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:27 f. Adultery. Jesus again extends the scope of the prohibition from actions to thoughts. There is so mething more here than the seventh or even the tenth commandment, where the coveti...
Matthew 5:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

It hath been said. It was said. See Deuteronomy 24:1 .
Matthew 5:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 . Whosoever shall put away his wife. As a more suitable occasion for discussing and explaining this doctrine at greater length will afterwards occur, ( Matthew 19:9 ,) I shall n...
Matthew 5:31 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1305 DIVORCES FORBIDDEN Matthew 5:31-32 . It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: hut I say unto you, That whosoever shall put...
Matthew 5:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: Whosoever shall put away his wife - The Jewish doctors gave great license in the matter of divorce. Am...
Matthew 5:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

It hath been said, &c.— The doctors of the school of Sammai affirmed, that in the law concerning divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1 the words some uncleanness were to be understood of adultery o...
Matthew 5:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: It hath been said. This shortened form was perhaps intentional, to mark a transition from the...
Matthew 5:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount John 5:1 to John 7:29 . The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20 . This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke ( Luke 6:20 ), that it is best to regard t...
Matthew 5:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

It hath been said. — The better MSS. give, “ But it was said,” as though stating an implied objection to the previous teaching. Men might think that they could avoid the sin of adultery by taking...
Matthew 5:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 5:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Pure Eyes and Clean Speech Matthew 5:27-37 The legislation of the old time insisted that no member of the commonwealth should commit adultery, and enforced terrible penalties. See Deuteronomy...
Matthew 5:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
Matthew 5:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The law made a provision for the putting away a wife in cases of adultery, Deuteronomy 24:1 etc. But the LORD Jesus saith that this was permitted only in consequence of the hardness of their hearts...
Matthew 5:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

It hath been said ,.... It is not added here, as in the former instances, "by them of old time"; nor prefaced with these words, "ye have heard"; because the case of divorce was not any law of Moses,...
Matthew 5:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: Ver. 31. It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, &c. ] This Moses permitted, as...
Matthew 5:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let him give her a writing of divorcement “The doctors of the school of Sammai affirmed, that, in the law concerning divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1 , the words some uncleanness , were to be understood...
Matthew 5:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
Matthew 5:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto...
Matthew 5:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Matthew 5:32 " .
Matthew 5:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Five Fuller Applications of the Law (5:21-43). In order to bring home what His disciples' approach to the Law should be Jesus selects five pivotal aspects of the Law, and expands on them and expla...
Matthew 5:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
Matthew 5:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:17 . Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testame...
Matthew 5:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
Matthew 5:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
Matthew 5:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

It hath been said,. Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement.
Matthew 5:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ; Jeremiah 3:1 ; Mark 10:2-9 ; Matthew 19:3 ; Matthew 19:7
Matthew 5:31 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:1-42 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great...
Matthew 5:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Let him give her a writing of divorce — Which the scribes and Pharisees allowed men to do on any trifling occasion. Deuteronomy 24:1 ; Matthew 19:7 ; Mark 10:2 ; Luke 16:18 .

Matthew 5:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 5:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 5:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 5:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 5:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 5:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 5:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 5:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 5:31 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 5:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:31 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 5:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes