Mark 10:3

3 And he answered [and] said to them, "What did Moses 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 And from there he set out [and] came to the region of Judea and the other side of the Jordan, and again crowds came together to him. And again, as he was accustomed [to do], he began to teach them.

2 And they asked him if it was permitted for a man to divorce [his] wife, [in order to] test him.

3 And he answered [and] said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

4 So they said, "Moses permitted [a man] to write a certificate of divorce and to send [her] away."

5 But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb