CLV(i)
1 And it occurred, when Jesus finishes these sayings, He withdraws from Galilee and came into the boundaries of Judea, the other side of the Jordan."
2 And vast throngs follow Him, and He cures them there."
3 And the Pharisees came to Him, trying Him, and saying, "Is it allowed one to dismiss his wife for every cause?
4 Now He, answering, said, "Did you not read that the Maker from the beginning makes them male and female,
5 and He said, 'On this account a man shall be leaving father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh'?
6 So that no longer are they two, but one flesh. What God, then, yokes together, let not man be separating."
7 They are saying to Him, "Why, then, does Moses direct to give a scroll of divorce and to dismiss her?
8 Jesus is saying to them, that "Moses, in view of your hardheartedness, permits you to dismiss your wives. Yet from the beginning it has not come to be thus."
9 Now I am saying to you that whoever should be dismissing his wife (not for prostitution) and should be marrying another, is committing adultery, and he who marries her who has been dismissed, is committing adultery."
10 The disciples are saying to Him, "If the cause of a man with a woman is thus, it is not expedient to marry."
11 Yet He said to them, "Not all are containing this saying, but those to whom it has been given."
12 For there are eunuchs who were born thus out of their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who are emasculated by men, and there are eunuchs who emasculate themselves because of the kingdom of the heavens. The one able to contain it, let him contain it."