Matthew 19:4-6
Context19:4 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
Context19:8 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
tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “heart” (a collective singular).