So he replied, "What did Moses lay down for you?"
Tell me, you who are keen to be under the Law, will you not listen to the Law?
You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages — and they do testify to me —
Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"
Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.
They said, "Moses permitted a man to divorce her by writing out a separation notice."