Verses 1-12 - Wherever Jesus was, the people flocked after him in crowds, and he taught them. Preaching was Christ's constant practice. He here show that the reason why Moses' law allowed divorce, was such that the ought not to use the permission; it was only for the hardness of their hearts. God himself joined man and wife together; he has fitted them to be comforts and helps for each other. The bond which God has tied, is not to be lightly untied. Let those who are for putting away their wives consider what would become of themselves, if God should deal with them in like manner.
10:3 {What did Moses command you?} (ti humin eneteilato mwuses;). Jesus at once brought up the issue concerning the teaching of Moses (#De 24:1). But Jesus goes back beyond this concession here allowed by Moses to the ideal state commanded in #Ge 1:27.
