Mark 10:5

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

Mark 10:5 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:5

And Jesus answered and said unto them
With respect to this command, or sufferance of Moses, which they urged:

for the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept;
it was, not because it was right in its own nature, or according to the original will of God; but, because the Jews were such cruel, and hard hearted men, that if this had not been permitted, some of them, that had wives not so agreeable to them, would have used them in a very inhuman manner, if not murdered them; and therefore to prevent further, and greater mischief, Moses indulged them with such a precept; (See Gill on Matthew 19:8).

Mark 10:5 In-Context

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.

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

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife,