NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 19:5

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

5

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 5. These words were pronounced by Adam. Genesis 11:24.—And they two shall be in one flesh. [2] I translate thus with submission to better judges; yet the sense may be, by a kind of Hebraism, they shall be esteemed as one person. Witham.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter