Mark 10:1-12
Jesus’ Teaching about Divorce
1 (A)Getting up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, (B)according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.
2 Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to (a)divorce a wife.
3 And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “(C)Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and (b)send her away.”
5 But Jesus said to them, “(c)(D)Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
6 But (E)from the beginning of creation, God (F)made them male and female.
7 (G)For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother(d),
8 (H)and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Footnotes:
a.
Mark 10:2: ['Or ', send away]
b.
Mark 10:4: ['Or ', divorce, ' her']
c.
Mark 10:5: ['Or ', With reference to]
d.
Mark 10:7: ['Many late mss add ', and shall cling to his wife]
e.
Mark 10:11: ['Or ', sends away]
f.
Mark 10:12: ['Or ', sends away]