Do you test HIm?

Adultery

So, this is a trick question right? Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. (1989). (Mk 10:2). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. Jesus answers them with a question. Have you noticed this pattern from the Son of Man? As a councilor would do knowing that he/she has no answer for the patient but that the patient knows the answer, Jesus puts the question onto the Pharisees. What did Moses command you?”

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. (1989). (Mk 10:3). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

They answer by saying that Moses allowed them to write a certificate of dismissal. Jesus then tells them why Moses allowed them to do this, not because it was lawful but because they were hard hearted. As I reflect upon this message I thought again, why is this passage and the passage concerning children connected and I think this is why. Children do not have callused hearts therefore little children are easy to forgive.

The New Revised Standard Version Teaching about Divorce

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Notice that the conversation was not over concerning the matter of divorce. Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. (1989). (Mk 10:10–12). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. Why do you suppose the Disciples needed to ask again? We often times want clarity when the answer is not what we wanted to hear. So, I thought Moses said type of question. The Disciples want clarification because what Jesus tells them is contrary to what Moses said.

Now we shift to what Jesus is doing with little children. People are bringing their children to the Lord for them to be touched by him and the Disciples were turning them away. In many ways we find children to be bothersome, a bother or burden. The Disciples were guarding Jesus and his business so that he might not be bothered by meaningless children.

What does Jesus feel concerning the children? But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. (1989). (Mk 10:14). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

indignant-feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment.

"he was indignant at being the object of suspicion" So, we find that indignant means that Jesus was angry with his Disciples for stopping the children from coming to him.

The New Revised Standard Version Jesus Blesses Little Children

“Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.

Children are not a bother, per Jesus, so let us take them into our arms, lay hands on them and Bless them.