Mark 10:2

Pharisees test Jesus by asking whether divorce is lawful. Their aim is to trap him, but it opens the way for his teaching on marriage.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Cor 7:10–11But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• John 8:6They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
• Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
• Luke 6:7The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
• Matt 19:3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
• John 7:48Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
• John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
• John 7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
• Luke 5:30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
• Matt 16:1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
• 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
• Luke 11:39The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
• Mark 8:11The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
• Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• Mark 8:15He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
• Matt 15:12Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”
• John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
• Matt 22:35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
• Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
• Mal 2:16For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
• Matt 5:31–32“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
• Matt 9:34But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

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