
Matthew 5:13-48
Catholic Bible Study
00:00
What Jesus Is Doing in the New Testament Is Fulfilling Every Aspect of the Torah
In the New Testament, Jesus fulfills every aspect of the Torah. Why did Moses allow for divorce and remarriage? Well, on Matthew 19, Jesus is going to explain it was for your hardness of heart. So that prescription that allowed for a practice that Jesus associates with adultery points to something. It points to Israel's need for salvation. And once Jesus deals with sin, then the penance for that sin is now done away with. The laws that change are never the moral laws but what they are is the application of the moral laws.
Transcript
Play full episode