Oct 6, 2024
2Some Pharisees
came, and to test [Jesus] they asked,
“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his
wife?” 3He answered
them, “What did Moses command you?” 4They said,
“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to
divorce her.” 5But Jesus said
to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this
commandment for you. 6But from the
beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and
female.’ 7‘For this
reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his
wife, 8and the
two shall
become one flesh.’
So they are no
longer two, but one flesh. 9Therefore what
God has joined together, let no one
separate.”
10Then in the
house the disciples asked him again about this
matter. 11He said to
them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits
adultery against her; 12and if she
divorces her husband and marries another, she commits
adultery.”
13People were
bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them;
and the disciples spoke sternly to them. 14But when Jesus
saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little
children come to me; do not stop them; for it is
to such as
these that the kingdom of God belongs. 15Truly I tell
you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child
will never enter it.” 16And he took
them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed
them.