October 7, 2012, Gospel

10:2	And approaching, the Pharisees questioned him, testing him: “Is it lawful for a man to dismiss his wife?”
10:3	But in response, he said to them, “What did Moses instruct you?”
10:4	And they said, “Moses gave permission to write a bill of divorce and to dismiss her.”
10:5	But Jesus responded by saying: “It was due to the hardness of your heart that he wrote that precept for you.
10:6	But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
10:7	Because of this, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife.
10:8	And these two shall be one in flesh. And so, they are now, not two, but one flesh.
10:9	Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”
10:10	And again, in the house, his disciples questioned him about the same thing.
10:11	And he said to them: “Whoever dismisses his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
10:12	And if a wife dismisses her husband, and is married to another, she commits adultery.”
10:13	And they brought to him the little children, so that he might touch them. But the disciples admonished those who brought them.
10:14	But when Jesus saw this, he took offense, and he said to them: “Allow the little ones to come to me, and do not prohibit them. For of such as these is the kingdom of God.
10:15	Amen I say to you, whoever will not accept the kingdom of God like a little child, will not enter into it.”
10:16	And embracing them, and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them.

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