In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Twentyseventh
Sunday of the Year. Listen: GospelMk
10:2-12
The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, "Is it lawful
for a husband to divorce his wife?" They were testing him. He
said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?" They replied, "Moses
permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her." But
Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote
you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, God made
them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and
be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So
they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no
human being must separate." In the house the disciples again questioned
Jesus about this. He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife
and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces
her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."