And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,
And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry and are given in marriage,
Luke — Luke's 'orderly account' (1:3) follows Jesus from Bethlehem through the long travel narrative to Jerusalem and the Emmaus road.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
Let us also see what Christ said to them. He says, "The children of this world that lead worldly, fleshly lives full of fleshly lust marry and are married for the procreation of children. Those who have maintained an honorable and chosen life, full of all excellence, and have been accounted worthy of attaining to a glorious and marvelous resurrection, certainly will be raised far above the life which people lead in this world. They will live as is suitable for saints who already have been brought near to God.
Cyril of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 136, 444patristic
And Jesus answering, said unto them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
The children of this world - Men and women in their present state of mortality and probation; procreation being necessary to restore the waste made by death, and to keep up the population of the earth.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The verses this one reaches7
In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
leads to
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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Ephesians 5:31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
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Luke 16:8The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
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For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
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