* Caesarea Philippi * Nazereth Jericho *

"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" Mark 10:2

"Herod gave orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married. For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." Mark 6:17-18

" What did Moses command you?" he replied. They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away." "It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law." Mark 10:4-5

“What God has joined together, let no one separate." Mark 10:9

“As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit the life of the Age to Come (Olam Haba) ?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone. You know the commandments: 'You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.'“ "Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." Mark 10:17-21

At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth. Mark 10:22

By taking a long and thoughtful look at what is created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see … The basic reality of God is plain. Open your eyes and there it is! Romans 1: The Message

Still I pretended to know it all, but I’m illiterate regarding life. … I trivialize myself into silliness and confusion so that there’s neither sense nor direction left in my life. There is something deep within that echoes God’s yes and no, right and wrong… But I keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives … God let us all run loose. So where does that put us? … Basically, all of us, whether insiders or outsiders, start out in identical conditions, which is to say that we all start out broken. No one's living right; I can't find a single one. Romans 2:22-3:11. The Message