1. And rising up thence he comes into the coasts of Judaea, and the other side of the Jordan. And again crowds come together to him, and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them.
2. And Pharisees coming to him asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? (tempting him).
3. But he answering said to them, What did Moses command you?
4. And they said, Moses allowed to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.
5. And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;
6. but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,
8. and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.
9. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
10. And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning this.
11. And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another, commits adultery against her.
12. And if a woman put away her husband and shall marry another, she commits adultery.
13. And they brought little children to him that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those that brought them.
14. But Jesus seeing it, was indignant, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me; forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.