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MATTHEW 19:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 19:4Matt 19:6
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”
And said: therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. The Genesis 2:24 quotation establishes the covenant of marriage as the creation of a new unity: two become one flesh. The leaving of father and mother and the cleaving to the wife are the two movements that constitute the marital covenant. The one-flesh union that results is the creation's vision of marriage's completeness.

Church Fathers on Matthew 19:5

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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