4. The Pharisees said, “Moses allowed a man to divorce his wife by writing a certificate of divorce.”
5. Jesus said, “Moses wrote that command for you because you refused to accept God’s teaching.
6. But when God made the world, ‘he made people male and female.’
7. ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.
8. And the two people will become one.’ So they are no longer two, but one.
9. God has joined them together, so no one should separate them.”
10. Later, when the followers and Jesus were in the house, they asked him again about the question of divorce.