Mark 10:1-16

1He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on him again, and as was his custom he taught them again.

2Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

3He replied to them, “What did Moses command you?”

4They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers and send her away.”

5But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.

6But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother

8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

10When they were in the house again, the disciples questioned him about this matter.

11He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

12Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

13People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.

14When Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

15Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

16After taking them in his arms, he laid his hands on them and blessed them.