Mark 10:3

“And he answered and said unto them, etc..] Very prudently and wisely, what did Moses command you? according to Matthew, he put another question to them; (see <401904>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.”

“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…”

“10:3 Jesus answered the Pharisees’ trick question with a counter-question (cp. Matt 22:20).”

“What: Isa 8:20; Luk 10:25; Joh 5:39; Gal 4:21 Mark 10:4”