![Brueghel painting of Jesus preaching](https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/186/2015/09/800px-Jan_Brueghel_-_De_prediking_op_het_Meer_van_Galilea-300x209.jpg)
“De prediking op het Meer van Galilea”
(Preaching on the Sea of Galilee)
Please note, incidentally, that this is a very inaccurate depiction of the landscape around the Galilee. It seems, perhaps, that religious art isn’t always precisely accurate.
(Click on the image to enlarge it.)
Compare Matthew 5:31-32; Luke 16:18
These are tough passages. It’s absolutely clear, though, that God’s design is for marriages to endure.
Moses permitted divorce, but as a concession to human weakness, not as something with divine approval.
Compare this statement (a hadith, as they’re known) from the Prophet Muhammad:
“With Allah, the most detestable of all permitted things is divorce.”