The Bible speaks often about a "stiff necked people".  That's us, for sure.  His fellow Jews were fond of breaking the Torah down into 613 commandments.  Jesus tried to teach them to love God and one another.  As Jesus saw it, the Torah had a larger message, summarized in two of the 613: love God and neighbor.

How did Jesus respond to the "rule" on divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1?  What was he trying to teach them, and how did he do it?  He was speaking to law abiding Jews, all of whom probably knew someone who had followed Deuteronomy 24:1.  That is, write a bill of divorce and put the spouse out of the house.

How do you think they would have reacted when someone they knew, someone who had followed the law, was called an adulterer?  Jesus might as well have said, "if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out!"  And, of course, Jesus did say that.

I suppose you could give a literal interpretation to these sayings, but that would miss the point.

Do you still need to evade my answer?