Mark 10
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The Question of Divorce
1He # 10:1–12 Mt 19:1–2 set out from there and went to the region of Judea # 10:1 Lk 1:5 and across the Jordan. # 10:1 Mt 4:15,25; Lk 3:3; Jn 1:28; 3:26; 10:40 Then crowds converged on him again, and as was his custom he taught # 10:1 Mt 28:20; Ac 4:2; 2Tm 4:11 them again.
2Some Pharisees # 10:2 Mk 7:3 came to test # 10:2 Jms 1:13 him, asking, “Is it lawful # 10:2 Jn 18:31 for a man to divorce # 10:2 Lv 21:7 his wife? ” # 10:2 1Pt 3:1
3He replied to them, “What did Moses # 10:3 Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 command you? ”
4They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers # 10:4 Mt 5:31 and send her away.” # 10:4 Dt 24:1,3
5But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts. # 10:5 Mk 16:14 6But from the beginning # 10:6 Jn 1:1; Ac 26:4 of creation # 10:6 Jn 1:3; Rv 3:14 God # 10:6 Other mss omit God made them male and female. # 10:6 Gn 1:27; 5:2,# 10:6 Gn 1:27; 5:2 7For this reason a man will leave # 10:7 Lk 15:4 his father and mother # 10:7 Some mss add and be joined to his wife 8and the two will become one flesh. # 10:7–8 Gn 2:24,# 10:7–8 Gn 2:24 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” # 10:9 1Co 7:10–15; Heb 7:26
10When they were in the house again, the disciples questioned him about this matter. 11He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife # 10:11 1Pt 3:1 and marries # 10:11 1Tm 5:14 another commits adultery # 10:11 Mt 5:27–28 against her. 12Also, if she divorces her husband # 10:12 Mt 1:19 and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Blessing the Children
13People # 10:13–16 Mt 19:13–15; Lk 18:15–17 were bringing little children # 10:13 Lk 1:7 to him in order that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked # 10:13 2Tm 4:2 them. 14When Jesus saw it, he was indignant # 10:14 Lk 13:14 and said to them, “Let the little children come to me. # 10:14 Lk 14:26 Don’t stop # 10:14 1Co 14:39 them, because the kingdom of God # 10:14 Mk 1:15 belongs to such as these. 15Truly I tell you, # 10:15 Ps 72:19; Rv 22:21 whoever does not receive # 10:15 Or not welcome,# 10:15 Ac 17:11 the kingdom of God like a little child # 10:15 Lk 1:7 will never enter it.” 16After taking them in his arms, he laid his hands on # 10:16 1Tm 5:22 them and blessed # 10:16 Gn 48:15 them.
The Rich Young Ruler
17As # 10:17–31 Mt 19:16–30; Lk 18:18–30 he was setting out on a journey, # 10:17 Mk 8:27 a man ran up, knelt down # 10:17 Mt 17:14; 27:29; Mk 1:40 before him, and asked him, “Good # 10:17 Gn 1:31 teacher, # 10:17 Mk 4:38; Eph 4:11 what must I do to inherit # 10:17 Rv 21:7 eternal life? ” # 10:17 Lk 10:25–28; Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48
18 “Why do you call me good? ” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone. # 10:18 Ps 69:16 19You know the commandments: Do not murder; # 10:19 Mt 5:21 do not commit adultery; # 10:19 Mt 5:27–28 do not steal; # 10:19 Eph 4:28 do not bear false witness; # 10:19 Pr 6:19 do not defraud; # 10:19 1Co 6:7–8; 7:5; 1Tm 6:5; Jms 5:4 honor # 10:19 1Tm 5:3 your father and mother.” # 10:19 Ex 21:15,# 10:19 Ex 20:12–16; Dt 5:16–20
20He said to him, “Teacher, # 10:20 Mk 4:38; Eph 4:11 I have kept all these from my youth.”
21Looking at him, Jesus loved him # 10:21 Lk 6:35; 2Th 2:13; Heb 12:6 and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, # 10:21 Mk 14:7; Rm 15:26 and you will have treasure # 10:21 2Co 4:7 in heaven. # 10:21 Mt 6:20; 13:44; Lk 12:33 Then come, # 10:21 Other mss add taking up the cross, and follow me.” # 10:21 Jn 8:12 22But he was dismayed by this demand, and he went away grieving, # 10:22 2Co 2:2 because he had many possessions. # 10:22 Ac 2:45; 5:1
Possessions and the Kingdom
23Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth # 10:23 Ac 4:37; 8:18,20; 24:26 to enter the kingdom of God! ” # 10:23 Mk 1:15
24The disciples were astonished at his words. Again Jesus said to them, “Children, # 10:24 Lk 1:7 how hard it is # 10:24 Other mss add for those trusting in wealth to enter the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich # 10:25 Gn 24:35; Rv 2:9 person to enter the kingdom of God.”
26They were even more astonished, saying to one another, “Then who can be saved? ” # 10:26 Ac 16:30; Eph 2:8
27Looking at them, Jesus said, “With man it is impossible, # 10:27 Heb 6:4 but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”
28Peter # 10:28 Lk 6:14; Ac 10:32 began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
29 “Truly I tell you,” # 10:29 Rv 22:21 Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father # 10:29 Other mss add or wife or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, # 10:29 Mk 1:1; Php 1:5 30who will not receive a hundred times # 10:30 Lk 21:8 more, now at this time # 10:30 Lk 20:10 — houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions # 10:30 Mt 13:21 — and eternal life # 10:30 Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48 in the age to come. # 10:30 Mt 12:32; Lk 20:35; Eph 1:21; 2:7 31But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” # 10:31 Mk 9:35
The Third Prediction of His Death
32They # 10:32–34 Mt 20:17–19; Lk 18:31–34 were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, # 10:32 Ps 79:1; Mt 23:37 and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were astonished, but those who followed him were afraid. # 10:32 Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Rv 14:7 Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that would happen to him. # 10:32 Jn 6:61 33“See, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man # 10:33 Mk 2:10 will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, # 10:33 Mt 2:4 and they will condemn him to death. Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles, # 10:33–34 Mk 8:31; 9:31 34and they will mock him, spit on him, flog # 10:34 Or scourge him, and kill him, and he will rise # 10:34 Mt 16:21; Ac 2:24 after three days.” # 10:34 Lk 9:22
Suffering and Service
35James # 10:35–45 Mt 20:20–28; Ac 12:2 and John, # 10:35 Jn 21:7 the sons of Zebedee, # 10:35 Jn 21:2 approached him and said, “Teacher, # 10:35 Mk 4:38; Eph 4:11 we want you to do whatever we ask you.”
36 “What do you want me to do for you? ” he asked them.
37They answered him, “Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.” # 10:37 Mt 19:28; Lk 9:26
38Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. # 10:38 Jn 11:22 Are you able to drink the cup # 10:38 Ps 75:8 I drink or to be baptized with the baptism # 10:38 Lk 12:50; Ac 22:16 I am baptized with? ” # 10:38 Lk 12:50; Rm 6:3; 2Co 4:10–11; Gl 2:20
39“We are able,” they told him.
Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with. # 10:39 Ac 12:2; Rv 1:9 40But to sit at my right or left is not mine to give; instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”
41When the ten disciples heard this, they began to be indignant with James and John. # 10:41 Jn 21:7 42Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over # 10:42 Ac 19:16; 1Pt 5:3 them, and those in high positions act as tyrants over them. 43But it is not so among you. # 10:43 Mk 9:35; 10:45 On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, # 10:43–44 Lk 22:26 44and whoever wants to be first among you will be a slave to all. # 10:44 Mt 10:24; Php 2:7; Rv 1:1 45For even the Son of Man # 10:45 Mk 2:10 did not come to be served, but to serve, # 10:45 Jn 13:13–15; Php 2:7 and to give his life # 10:45 Jn 6:51; 10:15; Gl 2:20 as a ransom # 10:45 Lv 27:31; Ps 49:8; Mt 26:28; Eph 1:7 for many.” # 10:45 Or in the place of many; Is 53:10–12,# 10:45 Is 52:13–53:12; Mt 20:28
A Blind Man Healed
46They # 10:46–52 Mt 20:29–34; Lk 18:35–43 came to Jericho. # 10:46 Nm 22:1 And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus), a blind # 10:46 Mt 15:14 beggar, # 10:46 Jn 9:8 was sitting by the road. # 10:46 Mk 8:27 47When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, # 10:47 Mk 14:67 he began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, # 10:47 2Ch 1:1; Mt 1:1; Rm 1:3 have mercy # 10:47 Mt 5:7; Mk 5:19; Lk 1:50 on me! ” # 10:47 Mt 15:22; 17:15; Mk 10:48; Lk 16:24 48Many warned him to keep quiet, but he was crying out all the more, “Have mercy on me, # 10:48 Mk 10:47 Son of David! ”
49Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! # 10:49 Jn 16:33 Get up; he’s calling for you.” 50He threw off his coat, # 10:50 Lk 19:36 jumped up, and came to Jesus.
51Then Jesus answered him, “What do you want # 10:51 Mk 1:40 me to do for you? ”
“Rabboni,” # 10:51 Hb word for my lord,# 10:51 Jn 20:16 the blind man said to him, “I want to see.”
52Jesus said to him, “Go, your faith has saved you.” # 10:52 Mt 9:22; Mk 6:56; Lk 5:20 Immediately he could see and began to follow Jesus on the road.
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Mark 10
10
Don’t split up married people
1Jesus left Capernium in Galilee and went south, through Judea to the country on the east side of the Jordan River. A lot of people went to him there, and he taught them God’s word, the same as he always did.
2Some of the Pharisee mob also went to Jesus. They were strong for the Jewish law, and they tried to trick Jesus with a hard question. They said, “Is it all right for a man to break up his marriage, and send his wife away?”
3Jesus said, “What did Moses write in the law part of God’s book?”
4The Pharisee mob said, “Moses wrote a law like this, ‘A man can split up from his wife. That man has to write a divorce letter to say she is not his wife any more. He has to give that letter to his wife, and then he can force her to go away.’ ”#Deuteronomy 24:1-4; Matthew 5:31
5Jesus said to them, “You people have closed ears, and you will not listen to God, so Moses had to write those words for you like that. 6But God tells us in his book that he made people and everything else. His book says,
‘He made them man and woman.’#Genesis 1:27; 5:2
7And he tells us,
‘A man will leave his mother and father and marry a woman. The man and his wife will join with each other, and their bodies will be like one body again.’
8So they are not 2 people any more. They are like just one body.#Genesis 2:24 9You see, God joined them together like that, so don’t let anyone split them up.”
10After that, Jesus went back to the house with just his followers, and they asked him more about the things he said. 11Jesus said to them, “If a man splits up from his wife, and then if he marries another woman, he is sleeping with the wrong woman as if she is his proper wife. But she is not, and he is breaking God’s law, and he is doing wrong to his proper wife. 12And if a woman splits up from her husband, and then if she marries another man, she is sleeping with the wrong man as if he is her proper husband. But he is not, and she is breaking God’s law, and she is doing wrong to her proper husband.”#Matthew 5:32; 1 Corinthians 7:10-11
Jesus held kids in his arms
13Some time later, some people took their kids to Jesus. They wanted him to put his hands on them, and ask God to be good to them. But Jesus’s followers got angry with those people and told them to take their kids away.
14Jesus saw his followers stopping the kids from coming to him, and he got upset. He said, “Don’t stop those kids. Let them come to me. They are the sort of people God wants. You see, if you are like these little kids, God will let you join his family. 15You know, little kids know they are weak and not important, so they trust their mothers and fathers and do what they say. Well, I’m telling you straight, you have to be like those kids. You have to trust God and let him be your boss. If you can’t do that, you can’t be in God’s family.”#Matthew 18:3
16Then Jesus held those kids in his arms, and he prayed for God to be good to them.
A rich man asked Jesus how to live for ever
17After that, Jesus started to leave that place. Then a man ran up to him and got down on his knees to show Jesus respect. The man said, “Teacher, you are a good man. Tell me, what can I do so that I will live with God for ever?”
18Jesus said, “You call me good, but think about it. Only God is properly good. 19You know God’s laws,
– Don’t murder anyone.
– Don’t sleep with a woman that is not your wife, as if you are married to her.
– Don’t steal things that belong to other people.
– Don’t tell lies about anybody.
– Don’t trick people to get something from them.
– You always have to respect your father and your mother.”#Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
20That man said, “Teacher, I always do all those things. I always lived like that, from when I was a boy.”
21Jesus looked at him, and he loved him. And Jesus said, “There is still one more thing you have to do. Go and sell all your things to get some money, and give all that money to people that haven’t got anything. After you do that, God will be really happy with you. And later, in heaven, he will give you lots of other good things. So go and do what I told you, then come with me, and follow me.”
22That man heard what Jesus said, and he got really sad. He was a rich man, but Jesus told him to give all his things away. That made him very sad, and he just walked away with his eyes looking down.
23After that man left, Jesus looked around at his followers, and he said, “It’s really hard for rich people to join God’s family and to let him be their boss.”
24-25This shocked Jesus’s followers. So he told them more. He said, “It is hard for anyone to let God be their boss. Think about a big camel. Do you reckon it can go through the little hole in a needle? No, it can’t. But I’m telling you, it’s more easy for a big camel to get through that little hole, than for a rich person to get into God’s family. Rich people find it really hard to let God be the boss over their lives.”
26This shocked Jesus’s followers, and they said to each other, “Is there anyone that God will save and take into his family? Maybe nobody.”
27Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Nobody is good enough to get into God’s family. But God can make people good enough. God can do anything.”
28Peter said to Jesus, “We have left everything to follow you. What about us?”
29-30Jesus said, “Listen, if anyone leaves anything, so that they can tell people God’s good news, they will get back more than they leave. If somebody leaves their home, or their brothers, or their sisters, or their mother, or their father, or their kids, or their land, so that they can follow me and tell people God’s good news, they will get a much better life. They will get a lot more homes, a lot more brothers and sisters, a lot more mothers, a lot more kids, and a lot more land. But I have to tell you this too. If they do this work for me, they will get trouble from other people. But later they will live with God for ever.
31People that are important leaders today will find out later that they are nothing. God will make them workers for everybody. And people that are just workers today will be the important leaders later.”#Matthew 20:16; Luke 13:30
Jesus told his followers, “They will kill me”
32Then Jesus and his followers walked along the road towards Jerusalem, and Jesus went ahead of his followers. Jesus’s special workers were shocked because there were people in Jerusalem that wanted to make big trouble for Jesus, but he wanted to go there anyway. And his other followers were frightened too.
Then Jesus stopped walking, and he took his 12 special workers away from the other people, and he told them what was going to happen to him later. 33Jesus said, “We are all going to Jerusalem, and after we get there, somebody will change sides, and he will help the other mob catch me. That other mob are the bosses of our Jewish ceremonies and our law teachers. I’m God’s special man from heaven, but those Jewish leaders will grab me and take me to the Roman bosses. The Jewish leaders will say that I’m guilty, and they will tell the Romans to kill me. 34Then the Romans will make fun of me, and spit on me. They will hit me with whips, and then they will kill me. I will be dead for 2 nights, then on the 3rd day I will come alive again.”
James and John asked Jesus to make them important
35Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, went up to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we want you to do something good for us. Will you do what we ask you?”
36Jesus asked them, “What do you want me to do?”
37They said, “Later you will be the most important leader. Can you make us the next most important? Can you let one of us sit on one side of you, and the other one sit on the other side of you?”
38Jesus said, “You 2 don’t understand what you are asking me. People will give me a really hard time. Do you reckon you can stay strong for God even when people give you a really hard time? I will have really bad pain. It’s like I will have to drink really bad drink, like poison. I will even die.”#Luke 12:50
39James and John said, “Yes. We can do that.”
So Jesus said, “You are right. You will get the same hard time as me, and you will get bad pain like I will get. 40But I can’t give you what you want. God is the one that picks the people that will be the important leaders, and he picks the people that will sit beside me later on.”
41Jesus’s other 10 special workers heard what James and John asked for, and they got angry. 42So Jesus called them all together and said, “You know what government people are like here in this world. They like to be bosses over everybody. It is like that everywhere in this world, the leaders boss everyone around, and the big bosses like to show everyone that they are strong. 43-44But I don’t want you to be like that. If you want to be a leader of my people, you have to really want to help them, so you have to work hard for them, and don’t think about pay. And if you want to be the most important person, you have to be a worker for everyone.#Matthew 23:11; Mark 9:35; Luke 22:25-26 45You see, all the leaders of my people have to be like that. They have to be just like me. I’m God’s special man from heaven, but I didn’t come here to be bossy and get people to work for me. I came here to work for other people. And I came here to die for a lot of people. I will let God punish me instead of them. He will punish me for the bad things that they did.”
Jesus made a blind man see again
46Jesus and his followers kept going towards Jerusalem, and they walked through a town called Jericho. As they left Jericho, a big mob of people walked with them along the road.
A blind man was sitting at the side of that road, asking people to give him money so that he could buy some food. He was called Bartimayus. His father’s name was Timayus.
47Bartimayus heard that Jesus from Nazareth was coming along the road, so he started to yell out, “Jesus, you belong to David’s family, and you are the man that God promised to send to us. Please feel sorry for me, and help me.”
48A lot of the people there told him to be quiet, but he kept on yelling out even louder, “You belong to David’s family, and you are the man that God promised to send to us. Please feel sorry for me, and help me.”
49Jesus stopped and said, “Tell him to come to me.”
So they called out to the blind man, and they said, “Listen, Jesus is calling out for you. So you can be happy now. Get up and go to him.”
50That blind man jumped up. He didn’t worry about his coat. He left it behind on the ground. He just got up and walked to Jesus. 51Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
That blind man said, “Teacher, I just want to see again.”
52Jesus said to him, “You believe in me, so now you can see again. You can go home now.” Straight away, Bartimayus could see again, and he joined in with the other people and followed Jesus along that road.
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