diff --git a/liquibase-core/src/main/java/liquibase/util/StringUtil.java b/liquibase-core/src/main/java/liquibase/util/StringUtil.java
index bce27c06d77..ed7f1bfd2be 100644
--- a/liquibase-core/src/main/java/liquibase/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/liquibase-core/src/main/java/liquibase/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -69,8 +69,25 @@ public static String[] processMultiLineSQL(String multiLineSQL, boolean stripCom
         String previousPiece = null;
         boolean previousDelimiter = false;
         List<Object> parsedArray = Arrays.asList(parsed.toArray(true));
-        for (Object piece : mergeTokens(parsedArray, endDelimiter)) {
-            if (splitStatements && (piece instanceof String) && isDelimiter((String) piece, previousPiece, endDelimiter)) {
+        int isInClause = 0;
+        List<Object> tokens = mergeTokens(parsedArray, endDelimiter);
+        for (int i = 0; i < tokens.size(); i++) {
+            Object piece = tokens.get(i);
+            String nextPiece = null;
+            int nextIndex = i + 1;
+            while (nextPiece == null && nextIndex < tokens.size()) {
+                nextPiece = StringUtil.trimToNull(String.valueOf(tokens.get(nextIndex)));
+                nextIndex++;
+            }
+
+            if (piece instanceof String && ((String) piece).equalsIgnoreCase("BEGIN") &&  (!"transaction".equalsIgnoreCase(nextPiece) && !"trans".equalsIgnoreCase(nextPiece))) {
+                isInClause++;
+            }
+            if (piece instanceof String && ((String) piece).equalsIgnoreCase("END") && isInClause > 0  && (!"transaction".equalsIgnoreCase(nextPiece) && !"trans".equalsIgnoreCase(nextPiece))) {
+                isInClause--;
+            }
+
+            if (isInClause == 0 && splitStatements && (piece instanceof String) && isDelimiter((String) piece, previousPiece, endDelimiter)) {
                 String trimmedString = StringUtil.trimToNull(currentString.toString());
                 if (trimmedString != null) {
                     returnArray.add(trimmedString);
@@ -920,7 +937,7 @@ public static String stripSqlCommentsAndWhitespacesFromTheEnd(String sqlString)
         return trimRight(str.toString());
     }
 
- 
+
     /**
      * Concatenates the addition string to the baseString string, adjusting the case of "addition" to match the base string.
      * If the string is all caps, append addition in all caps. If all lower case, append in all lower case. If baseString is mixed case, make no changes to addition.
@@ -959,7 +976,8 @@ public static boolean equalsWordNull(String value) {
      * <p>Splits a camel-case string into words based on the came casing.
      * <p>
      * This code originated from the StringUtils class of https://github.com/apache/commons-lang
-     * @param str       the String to split, may be {@code null}
+     *
+     * @param str the String to split, may be {@code null}
      * @return an array of parsed Strings, {@code null} if null String input
      */
     public static String[] splitCamelCase(final String str) {
@@ -1027,7 +1045,7 @@ public static boolean isNumeric(CharSequence cs) {
         } else {
             int sz = cs.length();
 
-            for(int i = 0; i < sz; ++i) {
+            for (int i = 0; i < sz; ++i) {
                 if (!Character.isDigit(cs.charAt(i))) {
                     return false;
                 }
diff --git a/liquibase-core/src/test/groovy/liquibase/util/StringUtilTest.groovy b/liquibase-core/src/test/groovy/liquibase/util/StringUtilTest.groovy
index d05db806738..22516717f35 100644
--- a/liquibase-core/src/test/groovy/liquibase/util/StringUtilTest.groovy
+++ b/liquibase-core/src/test/groovy/liquibase/util/StringUtilTest.groovy
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class StringUtilTest extends Specification {
         that Arrays.asList(StringUtil.processMultiLineSQL(rawString, stripComments, splitStatements, endDelimiter)), Matchers.contains(expected.toArray())
 
         where:
-        stripComments | splitStatements | endDelimiter | rawString                                                                                                                                                                                              | expected
+        stripComments | splitStatements | endDelimiter | rawString                                                                                                                                                                                           | expected
         true          | true            | null         | "/**\nSome comments go here\n**/\ncreate table sqlfilerollback (id int);\n\n/**\nSome morecomments go here\n**/\ncreate table sqlfilerollback2 (id int);"                                           | ["create table sqlfilerollback (id int)", "create table sqlfilerollback2 (id int)"]
         true          | true            | null         | "/*\nThis is a test comment of MS-SQL script\n*/\n\nSelect * from Test;\nUpdate Test set field = 1"                                                                                                 | ["Select * from Test", "Update Test set field = 1"]
         true          | true            | null         | "some sql/*Some text\nmore text*/more sql"                                                                                                                                                          | ["some sqlmore sql"]
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ class StringUtilTest extends Specification {
         true          | true            | null         | "statement 1;\nstatement 2;\nGO\n\nstatement 3; statement 4;"                                                                                                                                       | ["statement 1", "statement 2", "statement 3", "statement 4"]
         true          | true            | "\\nGO"      | "statement 1 \nGO\nstatement 2"                                                                                                                                                                     | ["statement 1", "statement 2"]
         true          | true            | "\\nGO"      | "CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE emp_actions AS  -- spec\nTYPE EmpRecTyp IS RECORD (emp_id INT, salary REAL);\nCURSOR desc_salary RETURN EmpRecTyp);\nEND emp_actions;\nGO\nanother statement;here\nGO\n" | ["CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE emp_actions AS  \nTYPE EmpRecTyp IS RECORD (emp_id INT, salary REAL);\nCURSOR desc_salary RETURN EmpRecTyp);\nEND emp_actions;", "another statement;here"]
+        true          | true            | null         | "CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE emp_actions AS BEGIN\n statement 1;\nanother statement;here; END;"                                                                                                       | ["CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE emp_actions AS BEGIN\n statement 1;\nanother statement;here; END"]
+        true          | true            | null         | "CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE emp_actions AS BEGIN\n statement 1;\nBEGIN a nested statement;here; END; END;"                                                                                           | ["CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE emp_actions AS BEGIN\n statement 1;\nBEGIN a nested statement;here; END; END"]
+        true          | true            | null         | "BEGIN TRANSACTION; statement 1; end transaction;"                                                                                                                                                  | ["BEGIN TRANSACTION", "statement 1", "end transaction"]
 
     }