1 Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River.
2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”
4 He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?