Bible verse
Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.
Mark 10:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 10.
1 Then Jesus left that place and went into the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan. Again the crowds came to Him and He taught them, as was His custom.
2 Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.
3 “What did Moses command you?” He replied.
4 They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
5 But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
6 However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
KJV
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? tempting him.
ASV
And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.
ERV
And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
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