Mark 10:2-9 [2] Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” [3] “What did Moses command you?” he replied. [4] They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” [5] “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. [6] “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ [7] ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, [8] and

In Matthew 19 and Mark 10, Jesus was questioned by the Pharisees about divorce, and He not only goes to the law, but He goes to something far more foundational than the law, which is creation. Jesus quotes from Genesis 1:27, and then Genesis 2:24, where He says: "God made them male and female, and the two shall become one flesh. What God has put together, let man not separate." | Christopher Yuan 袁幼軒

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