³ Jesus replied by asking them, “What has Moses commanded you to do?”

⁴ “Moses allows men to write a divorce-notice and then to dismiss her,” they said.

^5-9 “Moses gave you that commandment,” returned Jesus, “because you know so little of the meaning of love. But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female’. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’. So that in body they are no longer two people but one. That is why man must never separate what God has joined together.”