1 And it happened that when Jesus had finished these statements, he went away from Galilee and came into the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan.
2 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.
4 And he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female
5 and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”
7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a document—a certificate of divorce—and to divorce her?”