Mark 10:2-8

2Some Pharisees came to Jesus. They wanted to find out how he would answer their question. They asked him, ‘Can a man send his wife away, so that she is no longer his wife? Is it right for him to do that?’

3Jesus replied with a question: ‘What did Moses say was right for you?’

4The Pharisees said, ‘Moses said that a man could write a letter to say that he and his wife are no longer married. Then the man can send the woman away.’

5Jesus said to them, ‘You did not want to obey God. That is why Moses made this rule for you.

6But at the start, when God made the world, he made people male and female.

7That is the reason that a man leaves his father and his mother. Then God joins him and his wife together.

8The man and the woman become like one body. They are not two separate people any longer. They have come together as one person.