Mark 10:2-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 10:1-12

Our Lord Jesus was an itinerant Preacher, did not continue long in a place, for the whole land of Canaan was his parish, or diocese, and therefore he would visit every part of it, and give instructions to those in the remotest corners of it. Here we have him in the coasts of Judea, by the further side of Jordan eastward, as we found him, not long since, in the utmost borders westward, near Tyre and Sidon. Thus was his circuit like that of the sun, from whose light and heat nothing is hid. Now... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 10:1-12

10:1-12 Leaving there, Jesus came into the hill-country of Judaea and to the district across the Jordan, and once again crowds came together to him. As his custom was, he again continued to teach them. Some Pharisees came to him and asked him if it was lawful for a man to put away his wife. They asked this question to test him. He asked them, "What commandment did Moses lay down for you?" They answered, "Moses allowed a man to write a bill of divorcement and then to put her away." Jesus said... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 10:2

And the: Pharisees came unto him ,.... As they every where did; not to be instructed by him, but to ensnare him; and asked him, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife ? that is, as Matthew adds, "for every cause"; see Gill on Matthew 19:3 , for, a divorce might be lawfully made for a cause, or reason, namely, adultery, but not for any, or every cause; which is the sense of this question of the Pharisees; and, which they put, not for information, but tempting him ; trying to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 10:4

And they said ,.... By way of reply, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away , Moses did not command them to divorce their wives, only suffered them to do so: and gave orders that if they could not bear that they should live with them, but would divorce them, that they should give them a bill, which should certify, they were so divorced, and then send them out of their houses, free to marry other men; this law, or permission, is in Deuteronomy 24:1 , of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 10:6

But from the beginning of the creation ,.... Of the world, or of man: מתחלת ברייתו של עולם , "from the beginning of the creation of the world", is a way of speaking often used by the Jews F18 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 3. fol. 2. 3. & sect. 4. fol. 4. 1. : the phrase "of the creation" is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions; and so it was in Beza's most ancient copy, and it is only read, "from the beginning", as in Mat_19:4,8; see Gill on Matthew 19:4 , See Gill on ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 10:7

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother ,.... The Persic version adds, "and brethren and sisters", though without any foundation in the original text, in Genesis 2:24 , from whence this passage is cited; or in any copy of the evangelist: and cleave to his wife ; See Gill on Matthew 19:5 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 10:8

And the twain shall be one flesh ,.... This is the remaining part of the citation out of Genesis 2:24 ; See Gill on Matthew 19:5 ; so then they are no more twain; but one flesh ; as Adam and Eve were both by creation and marriage: and so two persons, a man and woman, being lawfully married together, become one flesh, or "one body", as the Arabic and Persic versions render the phrase; and therefore the wife is to be loved by the husband as his own body, and from whom there should be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 10:9

What therefore God hath joined together ,.... See Gill on Matthew 19:6 . read more

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