“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.
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