Teaching About Divorce (MRK 10:1-12)

[10:1] And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

[10:2] And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

[10:3] He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

[10:4] They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”

[10:5] And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

[10:6] But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

[10:7] ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

[10:8] and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

[10:9] What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

[10:10] And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.

[10:11] And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,

[10:12] and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”