There is another debate going on in the Gospel today between Jesus and the Pharisees, on a subject that is still a matter for debate in our world today – that is, marriage and divorce. The Pharisees wanted to see if Jesus could be 
portrayed either as a rigid rule teacher, or as a lax liberal. His opponents thought that it would not look good for His public image to be cast as either one or the other. Jesus refers His listeners to the book of Genesis and to the original design of God for God’s creatures. Man and woman, in joining themselves to one another, become one body. “They are no longer two, therefore, but one body. So then, what God has united, man must not divide.†In quoting these verses from Genesis, Jesus is not reciting a rigid rule, but He is inviting us to “read†the true meaning of human relationship, as written in our very nature.
Marriage and divorce are testing issues for every society and for every generation. In the present day, an easy-divorce society sees many people treated as disposable items, to be easily set aside. And children are trapped in the middle of it all.
And the problem? That we are so “untouchableâ€. Jesus urges us to become like little children, eager to learn to practice love of God, and love one another.