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Mark 10:5-9 KJV
Mark · chapter 10 · verses 5–9
5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.Mark 10:5-9 · King James Version
Mark 10:5-9 in context
3And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
4And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Commentary
Cross references
- Genesis 1:27
- Genesis 5:2
- Genesis 1:1
- Genesis 2:24
- Matthew 19:5-6
- Ephesians 5:31
- Ephesians 5:28
- Romans 7:1-3
Key words (Strong's)
- beginningarchēbeginning, origin, the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a…G746 →
- answeredapokrinomaito give an answer to a question proposed, to answer, to begin to speak, but always where…G611 →
- hardnesssklērokardiahardness of heartG4641 →
- creationktisisthe act of founding, establishing, building etc, the act of creating, creation, creationG2937 →
- togethersyzeugnymito fasten to one yoke, yoke together, to join together unite, of the marriage tieG4801 →
- fatherpatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- mothermētēra mother, metaph. the source of something, the motherlandG3384 →
- cleaveproskollaōto glue upon, glue to, to join one's self to closely, cleave to, stick toG4347 →
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Our Lord Jesus was an itinerant Preacher, did not continue long in a place, for the whole land of Canaan was his parish, or diocese, and therefore he would visit every part of it, and give instructions to those in the remotest corners of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12