“ 1  Jesus left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them. 2  Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’  3  He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’  4  They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’  5  But Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote