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Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to trick him. They asked, “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any reason he chooses?”

Jesus answered, “Surely you have read in the Scriptures: When God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.’[a] And God said, ‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 19:4 ‘he made . . . female’ Quotation from Genesis 1:27 or 5:2.
  2. 19:5 ‘So . . . body.’ Quotation from Genesis 2:24.

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