Mark 10:2
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
In context
1 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
Compare in other versions
- KJV King James Version
— Mark 10:2 in the KJV
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
- NIV New International Version
— Mark 10:2 in the NIV
Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”