Mat 19:10 | KingComments | STEP | Time and again it becomes clear how the disciples are still under the influence of thinking by legal standards. They think the Lord is only radical. If marriage is so coercive and restrictive, you better not marry, they argue. There must be a little room to put an end to it if there really is no other option. That’s what the disciples think and so also many Christians today. They will not say it in this way, but the exception clause is for them an alleviation of what they consider to be the overly major implication of the inviolability of marriage. It is also a word that is not easy to understand. Not all can accept it. Only those who have to do with it will understand what the Lord means. He proposes three situations in which someone does not get married: 1. A person may be unfit to marry by birth, for example because of a certain physical or mental disability. 2. Someone may also have been made unfit by people to marry. These are those who have been castrated or dismembered. 3. The third category remains unmarried on the basis of a personal, voluntary choice. Someone does this to serve the Lord with soul and body, without needing to worry about the obligations of marriage ( ).

‏ Matthew 19:10

The Unmarried

Time and again it becomes clear how the disciples are still under the influence of thinking by legal standards. They think the Lord is only radical. If marriage is so coercive and restrictive, you better not marry, they argue. There must be a little room to put an end to it if there really is no other option. That’s what the disciples think and so also many Christians today. They will not say it in this way, but the exception clause is for them an alleviation of what they consider to be the overly major implication of the inviolability of marriage.

It is also a word that is not easy to understand. Not all can accept it. Only those who have to do with it will understand what the Lord means. He proposes three situations in which someone does not get married:

1. A person may be unfit to marry by birth, for example because of a certain physical or mental disability.

2. Someone may also have been made unfit by people to marry. These are those who have been castrated or dismembered.

3. The third category remains unmarried on the basis of a personal, voluntary choice. Someone does this to serve the Lord with soul and body, without needing to worry about the obligations of marriage (1Cor 7:37).