Mark 10:3

3 And He answered and said unto 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 He rose from thence, and went into the region of Judea by the farther side of the Jordan. And the people resorted unto Him again; and as He was wont, He taught them again.

2 And the Pharisees came to Him and asked Him, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?" -- testing Him.

3 And He answered and said unto them, "What did Moses command you?"

4 And they said, "Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away."

5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, "Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.