Mark 10:3

Easy-to-Read Version

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

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?

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?

THE MESSAGE
Jesus said, "What did Moses command?"

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Jesus left there and went into the area of Judea and across the Jordan River. Again, many people came to him, and Jesus taught them as he always did. ² Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to make him say something wrong. They asked him, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?" ³ Jesus answered, "What did Moses command you to do?" ⁴ The Pharisees said, "Moses allowed a man to divorce his wife by writing a certificate of divorce." ⁵ Jesus said, "Moses wrote that command for you because you refused to accept God's teaching. ⁶ But when God made the world, ‘he made people male and female.' ⁷ ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. ⁸ And the two people will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one. ⁹ God has joined them together, so no one should separate them." ¹⁰ Later, when the followers and Jesus were in the house, they asked him again about the question of divorce.

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

Cross-References

Jeremiah 51:27
"Lift up the war flag in the land! Blow the trumpet in all the nations! Prepare the nations for war against Babylon. Call these kingdoms to come fight against Babylon: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Choose a commander to lead the army against her. Send so many horses that they are like a swarm of locusts.

Ezekiel 27:14
People from the nation of Togarmah traded horses, war horses, and mules for the things you sold.

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.