Jesus rose up from where He was and went into the coasts of Judea, and Pharisees came to Him, asking him if it was lawful for a man to put away his wife. Jesus asked them what Moses had commanded them. Moses suffered that a bill of divorcement be written, they replied.
Jesus then noted it was for the hardness of their hearts that Moses suffered the divorces, "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife," Jesus said.
So, we have the Savior speaking of marriage as being between a man and a woman. The placement of the words, "For this cause," gives us cause to believe He is saying it is because God made them male and female that they should be married.
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