But from the beginning(A) of creation(B) God[a] made them male and female.(C)[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:6 Other mss omit God
  2. Mark 10:6 Gn 1:27; 5:2

But (A)from the beginning of creation, God (B)created them male and female.

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5-9 Jesus said, “Moses wrote this command only as a concession to your hardhearted ways. In the original creation, God made male and female to be together. Because of this, a man leaves father and mother, and in marriage he becomes one flesh with a woman—no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity. Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart.”

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