Mark 10:2-4

J.B. Phillips New Testament

The divine purpose in marriage

10 ^1-2 Then he got up and left Galilee and went off to the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Again great crowds assembled to meet him, and again, according to his custom, he taught them. Then some Pharisees arrived to ask him this test-question. “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?”

³ Jesus replied by asking them, “What has Moses commanded you to do?”

⁴ “Moses allows men to write a divorce-notice and then to dismiss her,” they said.