Mark 10:3

3 He replied, "What did Moshe command you?"

Mark 10:3 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:3

And he answered and said unto them
Very prudently and wisely,

what did Moses command you?
according to Matthew, he put another question to them; see ( Matthew 19:4 ) ; no doubt but both were put, and this after they had urged the authority and law of Moses: and therefore be very pertinently asks them, what Moses had said about divorces, what law he had left; and puts them upon producing and repeating it, that the sense of it might be examined, and it be considered, upon what account it was given.

Mark 10:3 In-Context

1 Then Yeshua left that place and went into the regions of Y'hudah and the territory beyond the Yarden. Again crowds gathered around him; and again, as usual, he taught them.

2 Some P'rushim came up and tried to trap him by asking him, "Does the Torah permit a man to divorce his wife?"

3 He replied, "What did Moshe command you?"

4 They said, "Moshe allowed a man to hand his wife a get and divorce her."

5 But Yeshua said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardheartedness.