Mateo 19:11

11 —dijo Jesús—.

Mateo 19:11 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 19:11

But he said unto them
With respect to the inference or conclusion, the disciples formed from what he had asserted:

all men cannot receive this saying;
of their's, that it is not good to marry, but it is more proper and expedient to live a single life! every man, as the Syriac version renders it, is not (hl qpo) , "sufficient", or "fit", for this thing; everyone has not the gift of continency, and indeed very few; and therefore it is expedient for such to marry; for what the disciples said, though it might be true in part, yet not in the whole; and though the saying might be proper and pertinent enough to some persons, yet not to all, and indeed to none,

save they to whom it is given;
to receive such a saying, to live unmarried with content, having the gift of chastity; for this is not of nature, but of grace: it is the gift of God.

Mateo 19:11 In-Context

9 Y les digo lo siguiente: el que se divorcia de su esposa y se casa con otra comete adulterio, a menos que la esposa le haya sido infiel.

10 Entonces los discípulos le dijeron:
—Si así son las cosas, ¡será mejor no casarse!

11 —dijo Jesús—.

12 Algunos nacen como eunucos, a otros los hacen eunucos, y otros optan por no casarse
por amor al reino del cielo. El que pueda, que lo acepte.

13 Jesús bendice a los niños
Cierto día, algunos padres llevaron a sus niños a Jesús para que pusiera sus manos sobre ellos y orara por ellos. Pero los discípulos regañaron a los padres por molestar a Jesús.