Mark 10 - In Depth Bible Commentaries

1582(...continued)sniffle and there's no telling about these things with all the strep going around. I'm puttingyou in the hospital this afternoon for a general checkup and a good rest. I know the food'slousy, but I'll be bringing your meals in from Rozzini's. I've already got it all arranged withthe floor superintendent."Second year: "Listen, darling, I don't like the sound of that cough and I've calledDoc Miller to rush over here. Now you go to bed like a good girl, just for Poppa."Third year: "Maybe you'd better lie down honey. Nothing like a little rest when youfeel lousy. I'll bring you something. Have we got any canned soup?"Fourth year: "Now look, dear, be sensible. After you've fed the kids and got thedishes done and the floor finished, you'd better lie down."Fifth year: "Why don't you take a couple of aspirin?"Sixth year: "I wish you'd just gargle or something instead of sitting around barkinglike a dog all evening!"Seventh year: "For Pete's sake, stop sneezing! Are you trying to give mepneumonia?"Marriage is full of laughs--but it is also serious. It is the source of some of thegreatest happiness in human life, but also the source of grief and great unhappiness. It issurrounded by myth and fantasy--but oftentimes ends up in disillusionment and sorrow.In our modern world, marriage is in many ways, "on the rocks." Divorce continuallybrings seemingly happy marriages to an end, and rarely do we find genuinely happymarriages. However, such relationships can be found, and a good marriage is one of thegreatest gifts of God.The first two chapters of the Bible picture marriage as the design of God for hishuman creatures, and sing the praises of married love. But the Bible also revealsnumerous examples of broken marriages, and of unhappy mates. Jesus includedmarriage--the relationship of husbands and wives--among his most pointed and importantteachings. We are going to look at Mark's account of that teaching in this study--but first ofall, see if you can give an answer to the following questions:1. We know that divorce is an increasingly difficult problem facing our modernsociety. But is divorce only a modern problem? Was it not also a problem in the time ofJesus?2. John the Immerser had condemned Herod Antipas for having taken his brother'swife, and had eventually been put to death for that teaching (see Mark 6:14-29). Now the881(continued...)