Mark 10:2-22

2 And Pharisees came up and in order ¹to test him asked, ²"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

4 They said, ³"Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."

5 And Jesus said to them, "Because of your ⁴hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

6 But ⁵from the beginning of creation, 'God made them ⁶male and female.'

7 ⁷'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,^[a]

8 and ⁸the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.

9 ⁹What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.

11 And he said to them, ¹⁰"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,

12 and ¹¹if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

Let the Children Come to Me

13 ¹²And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples ¹³rebuked them.

14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, ¹⁴"Let the children come to me; ¹⁵do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

15 ¹⁶Truly, I say to you, whoever does not ¹⁷receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it."

16 And ¹⁸he took them in his arms and blessed them, ¹⁹laying his hands on them.

The Rich Young Man

17 ²⁰And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and ²¹knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to ²²inherit eternal life?"

18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

19 You know the commandments: ²³'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.'"

20 And he said to him, "Teacher, ²⁴all these I have kept from my youth."

21 And Jesus, ²⁵looking at him, ²⁶loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing: go, ²⁷sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have ²⁸treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

22 ²⁹Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Cross References

• 1. See John 8:6
• 2. Matthew 5:31
• 3. Deuteronomy 24:1-4
• 4. Mark 16:14; [Mark 3:5; Mark 6:52; Hebrews 3:8]
• 5. Mark 13:19; 2 Peter 3:4; [Romans 1:20]
• 6. Cited from Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2
• 7. Ephesians 5:31; Cited from Genesis 2:24
• 8. 1 Corinthians 6:16; [Malachi 2:15]
• 9. 1 Corinthians 7:10
• 10. See Matthew 5:32
• 11. 1 Corinthians 7:11, 13
• 12. For ver. 13-16, see Matthew 19:13-15; Luke 18:15-17
• 13. ver. 48
• 14. Matthew 18:3
• 15. [Mark 9:39]
• 16. [John 3:3, 5]
• 17. [Luke 8:13; James 1:21]
• 18. Mark 9:36
• 19. Revelation 1:17
• 20. For ver. 17-30, see Matthew 19:16-29; Luke 18:18-30; [Luke 10:25-28]
• 21. See Mark 1:40
• 22. [Matthew 19:16]; See Matthew 25:34
• 23. Romans 13:9; Cited from Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20; [Matthew 5:21, 27]
• 24. [Philippians 3:6]
• 25. ver. 27; Luke 22:61; John 1:42; [Mark 3:5]
• 26. [John 11:5; John 13:23]
• 27. Luke 12:33; [Luke 16:9; Luke 19:8; Acts 2:45; Acts 4:34, 35; 1 Timothy 6:18, 19]
• 28. Matthew 6:19, 20
• 29. [Ezekiel 33:31]

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife