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 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