Mark 10:2
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
KJV
καὶ προσελθόντες οἱ Φαρισαῖοι ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν εἰ ἔξεστιν ἀνδρὶ γυναῖκα ἀπολῦσαι, πειράζοντες αὐτόν.
Greek NT
Et accedentes pharisæi interrogabant eum : Si licet viro uxorem dimittere : tentantes eum.
Vulgate
And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.
ASV
And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πειράζω
peirazo
verb · 38×
προσέρχομαι
proserchomai
verb · 87×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἀπολύω
apoluo
verb · 67×
ἐπερωτάω
eperotao
verb · 56×
ἔξεστι
exesti
verb · 32×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: Καὶ | Holmes/WHmarg: Καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV/RP: + προσελθόντες Φαρισαῖοι
- Καὶ — SBLGNT
- Καὶ — SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort (margin)
- + προσελθόντες Φαρισαῖοι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐπηρώτων | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐπηρώτων | RP: ἐπηρώτησαν
- ἐπηρώτων — SBLGNT
- ἐπηρώτων — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐπηρώτησαν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Theology of the Body · 4 passages
The Meaning of Man's Original Solitude In the last reflection of the present cycle we reached an introductory conclusion, taken from the words of Genesis on the creation of man as male and female. We reached these words, that is, the "beginning," to which the Lord Jesus referred in his talk on the indissolubility of marriage (cf. Mt 19:3-9; Mk 10:1-12). But the conclusion at w…
Original Innocence and Man's Historical State Today's meditation presupposes what has already been established by the various analyses made up to now. They sprang from the answer Jesus gave to his interlocutors (cf. Mt 19:3-9; Mk 10:1-12). They had asked him a question about the indissolubility and unity of marriage. The Master had urged them to consider carefully that which w…
The Knowledge-Generation Cycle and the Perspective of Death We are drawing to the end of the cycle of reflections wherein we have tried to follow Christ's appeal handed down to us by Matthew 19:3-9 and by Mark 10:1-12: "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, `For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be…
…and 1 more from this source.
1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:10 — And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
- John 8:6 — This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
- John 8:6 — This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
- Luke 11:53 — And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
- Mal 2:16 — For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherou
- Mark 12:15 — Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
- Matt 5:31 — It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
- Matt 19:3 — The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
- Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.