Common misinterpretations include viewing this as a blanket prohibition on all divorce without exceptions, ignoring the parallel allowance in Matthew for marital unfaithfulness, or assuming it applies only to men since Mark 10:12 extends it to women; others erroneously claim it permits remarriage after divorce as long as not simultaneous polygamy, diluting its condemnation of breaking the one-flesh union, or culturally relativize it to dismiss its relevance today despite its grounding in unchanging creation principles.
Mark 10:11
King James Version (1769)
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Jesus teaches the enduring sanctity of marriage as a divine covenant mirroring God's faithfulness, declaring that a man who divorces his wife and marries another breaks this bond through adultery against her, reinforcing the creation ideal of lifelong union between husband and wife as established in Genesis, where they become one flesh, and cautioning against the hardness of heart that led to Mosaic permissions for divorce.