Jesus Christ confirmed this Bible account of the divine origin of marriage, saying to critics of his day: “Did you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh ’?
عیسی مسیح خطاب به مخالفانش صحّت این گزارش را تأیید نمود و گفت :‏ « مگر نخوانده‌اید که خالق در ابتدا ایشان را مرد و زن آفرید ،‏ و گفت از این جهت مرد ،‏ پدر و مادر خود را رها کرده ،‏ به زن خویش بپیوندد و هر دو یک تن خواهند شد ؟‏