1And from there he arose and came toward the region of Judea and the other side of the Jordan. Crowds again went with him, and as he was accustomed he again taught them.2They questioned him whether it is permitted for a man to release a woman, thereby tempting him.3Then he answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"4They said, Moses permitted a man to write a scroll of divorce and to release.5Then Jesus said to them, Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote this commandment to you.6But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.8And the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two but one flesh.9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.10And in the house again the disciples questioned him about this matter.11He said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.12And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.