And Pharisees came up to (Jesus) and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”  (Matthew 19:3-6)

The Pharisees want to trip up Jesus regarding divorce; Jesus counters by reaffirming marriage as a sacred union and one that should not be sundered by any person.  Jesus quotes from the ‘commentary’ in Genesis (2:24) and the Greek Matthew employs translated ‘join’ is the verb κολλάω kollaó, derived from kolla which means ‘glue’.  Marriage is solemn and life-long commitment in the eyes of God.