Indoors the disciples began questioning Jesus again on the same subject.
He replied, »Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman, commits adultery against the first wife;
What, therefore, God has joined together let not man separate.«
When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.
After the return of Jesus to the house His disciples asked Him privately, »How is it that we could not expel the spirit?«
So they came to Capernaum; and when in the house He asked them, »What were you arguing about on the way?«