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MATTHEW 19:4 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 19:3Matt 19:5
“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,”
He answered: have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female. Jesus' appeal to the creation narrative — Genesis 1:27 — grounds his teaching on marriage in the created order rather than in the Mosaic regulations. The have you not read challenges the Pharisees' scriptural expertise: the creation foundation for marriage predates Moses and provides the framework within which Moses' regulations must be understood.

Church Fathers on Matthew 19:4

The Lord had before left Judaea because of their jealousy, but now He keeps Himself more to it, because His passion was near at hand. Yet does He not go up to Judaea itself, but into the borders of Judaea; whence it is said, 'And it came to pass when Jesus had ended all these sayings, he departed from Galilee.'

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom., lxii

Here then He begins to relate what He did, taught, or suffered in Judaea. At first beyond Jordan eastward, afterwards on this side Jordan when He came to Jericho, Bethphage, and Jerusalem; whence it follows, 'And He came into the coasts of Judaea beyond the Jordan.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

The Latin commentary that goes under the name of Chrys ostom’s resumes again at the first verse of this chapter]: As the righteous Lord of all, who loves these servants so as not to despise those.

Pseudo-Chrysostom · 5th century · [ed. note
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