Teaching About Divorce

10 ^(A)And standing up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, ^(B)according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

² And some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to ^[a]divorce a wife. ³ And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴ And they said, “^(C)Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and ^[b]send her away.” ⁵ But Jesus said to them, “^[c](D)Because of your hardness of heart he wrote for you this commandment. ⁶ But ^(E)from the beginning of creation, God ^(F)made them male and female. ^7 (G)For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother^[d], ^8 (H)and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

¹⁰ And in the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. ¹¹ And He *said to them, “^(I)Whoever ^[e]divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; ¹² and ^(J)if she herself ^[f]divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”

Teaching About Divorce

19 ^[a](A)Now it happened that when Jesus had finished these words, He departed from Galilee and ^(B)came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan; ² and ^[b]large crowds followed Him, and ^(C)He healed them there.

³ And some Pharisees came to ^[c]Jesus, testing Him and saying, “^(D)Is it lawful for a man to ^[d]divorce his wife for any reason at all?” ⁴ And He answered and said, “Have you not read ^(E)that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵ and said, ‘^(F)For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and ^(G)the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” ⁷ They *said to Him, “^(H)Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?” ⁸ He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to ^[e]divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. ⁹ And I say to you, ^(I)whoever ^[f]divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman ^[g]commits adultery^[h].”