1. NOW WHEN Jesus had finished saying these things, He left Galilee and went into the part of Judea that is beyond the Jordan;
2. And great throngs accompanied Him, and He cured them there.
3. And Pharisees came to Him and put Him to the test by asking, Is it lawful and right to dismiss and repudiate and divorce one's wife for any and every cause?
4. He replied, Have you never read that He Who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5. And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? [Gen. 1:27; 2:24.]
6. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate).