Mark 10:3

THE MESSAGE

Jesus said, "What did Moses command?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He replied to them, “What did Moses

King James Version (1611)
And he answered, and saide vnto them, What did Moses command you?

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

English Standard Version
He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

New American Standard Bible
And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

New Century Version
Jesus answered, "What did Moses command you to do?"

Amplified Bible
He replied to them, "What did Moses command you?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

Legacy Standard Bible
And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

Berean Standard Bible
"What did Moses command you?" He replied.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus asked them, "What does the Law of Moses say about that?"

Complete Jewish Bible
He replied, "What did Moshe command you?"

Darby Translation
But he answering said to them, What did Moses command you?

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus answered, "What did Moses command you to do?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he answered, and sayde vnto them, What did Moses commaund you?

George Lamsa Translation
He said to them, What did Moses command you?

Good News Translation
Jesus answered with a question, "What law did Moses give you?"

Lexham English Bible
And he answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

Literal Translation
But answering, He said to them, What did Moses command you?

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

Bible in Basic English
And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do?

Hebrew Names Version
He answered, "What did Moshe command you?"

International Standard Version
He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

Etheridge Translation
He saith to them, What hath Musha prescribed ?

Murdock Translation
He said to them: What did Moses command you?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he aunswered, and sayde vnto them: What did Moyses commaunde you to do?

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

World English Bible
He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Tempting him. And he answering said to them, What did Moses command you?

Weymouth's New Testament
"What rule did Moses lay down for you?" He answered.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he answeride, and seide to hem, What comaundide Moises to you?

Update Bible Version
And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?

Webster's Bible Translation
And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?

New English Translation
He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

New King James Version
And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

New Living Translation
Jesus answered them with a question: "What did Moses say in the law about divorce?"

New Life Bible
He said to them, "What did the Law of Moses say?"

New Revised Standard
He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, he, answering, said unto them - What unto you did, Moses, command?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you?

Revised Standard Version
He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he answered and sayd vnto the: what dyd Moses byd you do?

Young's Literal Translation
and he answering said to them, `What did Moses command you?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he answered and sayde: What hath Moses comaunded you?

Mace New Testament (1729)
to which he answered, what direction did Moses give you?

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus turned it back on 'em and said, "What did Moses have to say about it?"

Contextual Overview

¹From there he went to the area of Judea across the Jordan. A crowd of people, as was so often the case, went along, and he, as he so often did, taught them. Pharisees came up, intending to give him a hard time. They asked, "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife?" ³ Jesus said, "What did Moses command?" ⁴ They answered, "Moses gave permission to fill out a certificate of dismissal and divorce her." ⁵Jesus said, "Moses wrote this command only as a concession to your hardhearted ways. In the original creation, God made male and female to be together. Because of this, a man leaves father and mother, and in marriage he becomes one flesh with a woman—no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity. Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart." ¹⁰When they were back home, the disciples brought it up again. Jesus gave it to them straight: "A man who divorces his wife so he can marry someone else commits adultery against her. And a woman who divorces her husband so she can marry someone else commits adultery."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Isaiah 8:20, Luke 10:25, John 5:39, Galatians 4:21

Cross-References

Jeremiah 51:27
"Raise the signal in the land, blow the shofar-trumpet for the nations. Consecrate the nations for holy work against her. Call kingdoms into service against her. Enlist Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a field marshal against her, and round up horses, locust hordes of horses! Consecrate the nations for holy work against her— the king of the Medes, his leaders and people.

Ezekiel 27:14
"‘Beth-togarmah traded work horses, war horses, and mules for your products.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 it was given.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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. The wife of Herod had rejected her former husband and married Herod. And though instances of this kind “might” have been attempted to be defended by the example of Pagans, yet our Saviour was desirous of showing them that it did not free them from the charge of adultery. The apostles were going forth to teach Pagan nations, and it was proper for Christ to teach them how to act in such cases, and to show them that they were cases of real adultery.