Matthew 19:10,11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

His disciples say, If the case of a man be so with his wife If the marriage-bond be thus indissoluble, and a man cannot dismiss his wife unless she break that bond by going astray, but must bear with her, whether she be quarrelsome, petulant, prodigal, foolish, barren, given to drinking, or, in a word, troublesome by numberless vices; it is not good to marry A man had better not marry at all, since by marrying he may entangle himself in an inextricable snare, and involve himself in trials and troubles which may make him miserable all the rest of his days. But he said, All men cannot receive this saying Namely, that it is not expedient to marry; save they to whom it is given As a peculiar gift, to conquer those inclinations toward that state which are found in mankind in general, according to the common constitution of human nature.

Matthew 19:10-11

10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

11 But he said unto them,All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.