The Law and the Prophets

The Pharisees, who love money, laugh at Jesus, and he answers that they justify themselves before people while God knows their hearts. What people prize is detestable before God.

T¹⁴he Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus. ¹⁵So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

Jesus says the Law and the Prophets stood until John, while the gospel of the kingdom is now being preached and pressed into. He then says the Law remains fixed and names divorce followed by remarriage as adultery.

¹⁶The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. ¹⁷But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law. ¹⁸Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.