{"id":4182,"date":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/gospel-reading-for-wednesday-f-6.html"},"modified":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","slug":"gospel-reading-for-wednesday-f-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/gospel-reading-for-wednesday-f-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Reading for Wednesday, February 11, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 10:1-16<br \/>\n1 He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them.<br \/>\n2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, &#8220;Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?&#8221; 3 He answered them, &#8220;What did Moses command you?&#8221; 4 They said, &#8220;Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.&#8221; 5 But Jesus said to them, &#8220;Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. 6 But from the beginning of creation, &#8216;God made them male and female.&#8217; 7 &#8216;For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.&#8217; So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.&#8221;<br \/>\n10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 He said to them, &#8220;Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.&#8221;<br \/>\n13 People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. 14 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, &#8220;Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. 15 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.&#8221; 16 And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.<br \/>\n<font>From the <a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.nrsv.net'>New Revised Standard Version<\/a>. 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