Mark 10:4-5

Teaching About Divorce

⁴ They said, _d "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away." ⁵ And Jesus said to them, "Because of your _e hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 24:1 - 4
   When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house.
   
2. Cross References
   Mark 16:14
   Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
   Mark 3:5
   And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
   Mark 6:52
   For they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
   Hebrews 3:8
   Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness.