wife as an act involving adultery, but the adultery is viewed quite differently in the Lucan and Matthean sayings. In Luke 16:18, the man’s double action of divorcing his first wife and marrying a second is what is branded as adultery. This is a clear, straightforward idea, readily intelligible—if not acceptable—to modern minds. In contrast, the version in Matt 5:32 is more contorted in both grammar and thought. In an overliteral translation, Matt 5:32 (with the exceptive clause omitted) states: