Take parts; proclaim the gospel.
NARRATOR: Some Pharisees came up to Jesus and asked him a question as a test.
PHARISEE 1: Tell us, does the Law allow a husband to divorce his wife?
JESUS: What law did Moses give you?
PHARISEE 2: Moses gave permission for a husband to write a divorce notice and send his wife away.
JESUS: Moses wrote this law for you because you are so hard to teach. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female, and for this reason men and women leave their fathers and mothers and the two become one. They are no longer two but one. Let no one separate what God has joined.
NARRATOR: Back in the house later, Jesus’ disciples asked him about this matter.
JESUS: A man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his wife. In the same way, a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man commits adultery.
Mark 10.2-12
Sunday Readings: Genesis 2.18-24; Hebrews 2.9-11; Mark 10.2-12