Matthew 19:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"

³¹ It used to be said, Whoever divorces his wife must give her a divorce-certificate. ³² But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

¹ Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.

¹⁶ They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour. ¹⁷ Tell us, then, what you think about this. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" ¹⁸ But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?

³⁵ and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him.

² Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.

¹³ But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.

¹⁵ Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

⁵³ After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

⁶ (They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

⁹ where your fathers put me to the proof, and for forty years felt what I could do.