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Some Pharisees came to Jesus. They wanted to find out how he would answer their question. They asked him, ‘Can a man send his wife away, so that she is no longer his wife? Is it right for him to do that?’

Jesus replied with a question: ‘What did Moses say was right for you?’[a]

The Pharisees said, ‘Moses said that a man could write a letter to say that he and his wife are no longer married. Then the man can send the woman away.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:3 God told the rules to Moses and Moses wrote them down. That happened many centuries before Jesus came to earth.
  2. 10:4 See Deuteronomy 24:1-4.