This morning we will be heading into the 19th chapter in the Gospel of Matthew.

In our text we will see those pesky Pharisees, once again, trying to test Jesus. The idea was not to check how wise Jesus was, but for the Pharisees to trap Jesus into saying something that could be used against Him. 

The focus of their test was centered around a hot topic during that time-divorce. At the time of the writing of this text there were two distinctly different schools of thought about divorce. One was a much more liberal view. The other school of thought was much more conservative.

Either way, the Pharisees were hoping that Jesus would lose some of His followers by ascribing to one school of thought or the other on divorce. Whichever side Jesus chose would upset the other side that followed a different perspective on divorce.

Jesus is going to take the Pharisees to school, by going back to the beginning and Our Lord's original design for marriage.