Jesus and marriage

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I have always been told that Jesus “established” the sacrament of marriage. This by attending the wedding at cana. Is there more to this than that? Marriage was around long before Jesus. How did he establish it? Did he set down rules that the episcopy knows about but lay people are unaware of? Just going to a marriage isn’t establishing marriage. IMHO.
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I have always been told that Jesus “established” the sacrament of marriage. This by attending the wedding at cana. Is there more to this than that? Marriage was around long before Jesus. How did he establish it? Did he set down rules that the episcopy knows about but lay people are unaware of? Just going to a marriage isn’t establishing marriage. IMHO.
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He did not establish marriage as such, He established it as a sacrament.

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Christ Made Marriage a Sacrament
General Audience — May 6, 1992

“In a previous catechesis we recalled that the first miracle Jesus worked took place in Cana during a wedding feast. Although the significance of this miracle, by which “Jesus revealed his glory” (Jn 2:11), goes far beyond the recorded event, we can also discover the Lord’s appreciation for married love and the institution of marriage, as well as his intention to bring salvation to this fundamental aspect of human life and society. He gives new wine, the symbol of new love. The episode in Cana shows us how marriage is threatened when love is in danger of running out. With this sacrament Jesus Christ reveals his own help in an effective way, in order to save and strengthen the couple’s love through the gift of theological charity, and to give them the strength of fidelity. We can also say that the miracle worked by Jesus at the beginning of his public life is a sign of the importance marriage has in God’s saving plan and the formation of the Church.”

vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/alpha/data/aud19920506en.html
 
Marriage becomes a sacrament when both parties are baptized.

It was not the mere fact that Jesus attended the wedding that marriage among Christain’s became a sacrament; Christ would have personally taught his apostles that marriage was now a sacrament (indeed in the Sermon on the Mount, Christ elaborates on what Christian marriage entails, including the prohibition on divorce).

The wedding feast was rather the story used by the apostles who wrote the Gospel to illustrate Jesus’ special focus on marriage: that our Lord chose a wedding to perform his first public miracle shows that weddings are an innately sacred ceremony and worthy of being sacramental.

Only after his followers would only received baptism would their marriages personally become sacramental – not even the bride and groom at the wedding would have had a sacramental marriage if they were not baptized!.
 
He spoke about marriage on several occasions:
  • Matthew 5:31-32
  • Matthew 19:3-9
  • Matthew 22:23-33
  • Mark 10:1-12
  • Luke 16:18
  • Luke 20:27-40
  • John 4:16-18
and I might have missed a few.
 
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