"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

Mark 10:2 · KJV

“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

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

Verse 3

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

Mark 10 — Context

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away {his} wife? tempting him.

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put {her} away.

Cross References

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:

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:

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.

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}.

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.

Luke 11:39

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

John 11:47

Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.