Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
“What did Moses command you?” he replied.
They said, “Moses permitted a
man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
“It was because your hearts were hard
that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’
‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and
be united to his wife, and the two will become one
flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore
what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Mark 10:2-9
When
asked about divorce, Jesus did not approve it.
He acknowledged Moses approved divorce, reluctantly, blaming the people
for the rule rather than calling it “law.”
Jesus
saw marriage as a permanent bond and nobody should separate it. He never approved divorce. Obviously, Jesus knows all hurts can be
healed if people willfully surrender to him and submit to one another.