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Jesus Welcomes Children Kingdom · Mark 10

Story guide: Jesus calmly answering religious leaders while one holds a blank rolled legal scroll. This shared image is not a scene-for-scene rendering of Mark 10:1-12.

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1And from there, rising, he comes into the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gather to him again, and as was his custom, he again taught them.

2And they were asking him whether it is lawful for a man to divorce a wife, testing him.

3But he answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

4They said, “Moses permitted us to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

5But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for 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 they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.

10And in the house again, the disciples were asking him about this.

11And he says to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.”

12and if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.

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