At weddings in churches all over the world, someone stands up and reads a short line out loud, and the bride hears that she must obey.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. (Ephesians 5:22-23)
Those words are in the Bible, in a letter called Ephesians. They are not in any of the four gospels. Jesus taught women as his students, he let a woman sit at his feet the way a student sits in front of a teacher (Luke 10:39), and he sent a woman with the first news that he was alive (John 20:17-18). In all four gospels, he never once tells a wife to obey her husband.
So where did the line come from?
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