unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.’ Here is the context: Jesus was confronting the sins of the Pharisees, and He was unmasking their hypocrisy. He was showing how they exchanged God’s standards for their own because they could not keep His. They dragged God down to their own level and invented their own code of ethics. Making matters worse, they misinterpreted the Bible to fit their own views. A majority of the Pharisees decided that any
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