He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.
Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”
Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
