1202601 Pharisees ask about divorce – Matthew 19:3-9, Mark 10:2-9, A.D. 29 Perea
And Pharisees came to him, testing him, and asked him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” And he answered and said, “What did Moses command you?” And they said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.” And he answered and said, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, do not let man tear apart.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?” But Jesus said to them, “Moses wrote you this commandment and allowed you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female and it has not been so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
