In Mark 10:1–2, Jesus undergoes a test. But the exam proctors don’t have his growth in mind, they want to trap him, to harm him, and to discredit him by entangling him in the complexity of their question.

This passage is typically dubbed in our Bibles as a “Teaching About Divorce.” But more than an explicit teaching on divorce, Jesus gives us a case study on how interact with hostile, religious, cultural, and political opposition, without compromising biblical fidelity through the example of marriage and divorce.