2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
4 He answered, "Haven`t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5 and said, `For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?`
6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don`t let man tear apart."
7 They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"
8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
