What was the purpose of the marriage?

If that was the case then-in the sober, Jewish world in which they lived-how much more will the magnificence of marriage in the mind of God seem unintelligible in a modern Western culture. Jesus would probably say to us today, when He had finished opening the mystery for us, the same thing He said in His own day: "Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given ... Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.