Mark 10:8
and they two shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are not two, but one flesh.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
In Context
7Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife:
9What therefore God hath conjoined, let not man separate.
Cross References
Ephesians 5:28It behooveth men so to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. For he that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Matthew Henry on Mark 10:2-13
The Doctrine of Divorce. 1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of… Read the whole commentary →