Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Mark 10:8

"and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh." — Mark 10:8 (ASV)

Jesus did not question the law. But his answer reaches back to first principles. Moses’ permission to divorce was an accommodation to human weakness. It was an attempt to bring some sort of order in a society that disregarded God’s standards. But that is not what God intended in marriage. His original design in creating man and woman was that marriage should be an unbroken lifelong union (Genesis 2:18–24). Marriage was not a temporary convenience that could be terminated at will.