Mark 10 Intro: Of divorcement -- Blessing of children -- Deceitfulness of riches -- Reward of the saints -- Self-denial -- Self-exaltation -- Blind Bartimeus.
1 And he arose from thence and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan; and the people resort unto him again; and as he was accustomed to teach, he also taught them again.
2 And the Pharisees came to him and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? This they said, thinking to tempt him.
3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
5 Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this precept;
6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father, and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain but one flesh; what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
8 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
9 And he said unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
10 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
