Mark 10:2
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Mark 10:2 in other translations
| BSB | Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired. |
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| WEB | Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” |
| ASV | And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. |
| YLT | And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, |
| DARBY | And Pharisees coming to him asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? (tempting him). |
| BBE | And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife? |
| Webster | And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. |
What does Mark 10:2 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 10:1-12
Wherever Jesus was, the people flocked after him in crowds, and he taught them. Preaching was Christ's constant practice. He here shows that the reason why Moses' law allowed divorce, was such that they ought not to use the permission; it was only for the hardness of their hearts. God himself joined man and wife together; he has fitted them to be comforts and helps for each other. The bond which God has tied, is not…
Mark 10:2 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 10:2
- 1 Corinthians 7:10-11
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
- John 8:6
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
- Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
- Luke 11:53-54
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
- Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
- John 7:48
Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
- Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
- Luke 6:7
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
- John 7:32
The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
- Matthew 22:35
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
- John 11:47
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
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Context
- Mark 10:1
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
- Mark 10:2
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
- Mark 10:3
And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
Mark 10:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y llegándose los Fariseos, le preguntaron, para tentarle, si era lícito al marido repudiar á su mujer. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et des pharisiens vinrent à lui, et, pour l’éprouver, lui demandèrent: Est-il permis à un homme de répudier sa femme? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es traten Pharisäer herzu und fragten ihn: Ist es einem Manne erlaubt, sein Weib zu entlassen? indem sie ihn versuchten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et accedentes pharisæi interrogabant eum: Si licet viro uxorem dimittere: tentantes eum. |