Mark 10:1-8 ▼

1 Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea and crosses the Jordan: again the people flock to Him, and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching them once more.

2 Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"

3 "What rule did Moses lay down for you?" He answered.

4 "Moses," they said, "permitted a man to draw up a written notice of divorce, and to send his wife away."

5 "It was in consideration of your stubborn hearts," said Jesus, "that Moses enacted this law for you;

6 but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, 'Male and female did God make them.

7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,

8 and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'