Mark 10:2-8

2Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?”

3Jesus answered them with a question: “What did Moses say in the law about divorce?”

4“Well, he permitted it,” they replied. “He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away.”

5But Jesus responded, “He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts.

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

7‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,

8and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one,