Matthew 19:4-6
19:4 He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, 1
19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 2
19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Matthew 19:8
19:8 Jesus 3 said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, 4 but from the beginning it was not this way.
1 sn A quotation from Gen 1:27; 5:2.
2 sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.
3 tc A few important mss (א Φ pc) have the name “Jesus” here, but it is probably not original. Nevertheless, this translation routinely specifies the referents of pronouns to improve clarity, so that has been done here.
tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “heart” (a collective singular).