Mark 10:5

Mark 10:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
• New International Version (NIV)“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

Context of Mark 10:5

3Jesus replied with a question: ‘What did Moses say was right for you?’ 4The Pharisees said, ‘Moses said that a man could write a letter to say that he and his wife are no longer married. Then the man can send the woman away.’ Jesus said to them, ‘You did not want to obey God. That is why Moses made this rule for you. 6But at the start, when God made the world, he made people male and female. 7That is the reason that a man leaves his father and his mother. Then God joins him and his wife together.

Mark 10:5 word by word

ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· πρὸς τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν ὑμῶν ἔγραψεν ὑμῖν τὴν ἐντολὴν ταύτην·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• Jesusὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• answeredἀποκρίνωapokrinomai · to answerG611
• and saidλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• unto themαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• Forπρόςpros · to/withG4314
• the hardness ofσκληροκαρδίαsklērokardia · hardness of heartG4641
• yourσύsu · youG4771
• he wroteγράφωgraphō · to writeG1125
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• preceptἐντολήentolē · commandmentG1785

Cross-references for Mark 10:5

• Deuteronomy 9:6You must understand this. The Lord your God is not giving you this good land to live in because you are doing right things. No! You are proud people who do not want to obey me.
• Deuteronomy 31:27I know that they are a proud people who do not want to obey me. All the time that I have been living among them, they have turned against the Lord. After my death, they will turn against him even more!
• Nehemiah 9:16But our ancestors turned away from you. They would not agree to obey your commands.
• Matthew 19:8Jesus answered them, ‘Moses said this because you people did not want to obey God. All these things were different at the start, when God made the world.
• Acts 7:51Then Stephen said, ‘You people do not want to obey God! You do not want to listen to God's true message. You are the same as your ancestors. Like them, you always fight against what the Holy Spirit says.
• Hebrews 3:7God's Holy Spirit says this: ‘You must listen when you hear God speak today.

Commentaries on Mark 10:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-12Verses 1-12 See this question about divorce explained in the notes at Matthew 19:1-12. Mark 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband - It would seem, from this, that a woman, among the Jews, had the power of separating herself from her husband, yet this right is not given her by the law of Moses. There is not, however, any positive evidence that females often claimed or exercised this right. Cases had occurred, indeed, in which it had been done…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-9God allowed divorce because people’s hearts were hard, meaning they would not obey God. But the passages that Jesus quotes from the law of Moses show God’s true plan for marriage (Genesis 1:27; 2:23–24; see also Malachi 2:16). These passages show that God values marriage. In marriage, a man and woman form a new union, and the two become one. People should not go against God’s will by separating what God has joined together.Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 10:5

• Heart
• Jesus, the Christ
• Marriage
• Polygamy

In the dictionaries

• Jesus
• Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus
• Divorce
• Lordship
• Mock
• Ransom
• Resort
• Divorce in the New Testament
• Family
• Hard; Hardiness; Harddiness; Hardly

Commentaries on Mark 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings