on the essence and nature of marriage.”6 Jesus’s teaching here is primarily about marriage and secondarily about divorce—it is thus potentially relevant to any question of marriage. Whether to sanction same-sex union also, first and fundamentally, is a question of marriage. For this reason, this text about divorce cannot be set aside, due to supposed irrelevance, from our debate about same-sex union: divorce and same-sex union both are marriage matters. Second, Jesus’s response to this question exhibits