Mark 10:5 Meaning and Explanation
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.”
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What Does Mark 10:5 Mean?
Jesus does not dismiss Deuteronomy; he diagnoses it. The divorce regulation was written for the hardness of your heart, a rule given to restrain stubborn people and to protect the vulnerable from worse cruelty.
God's law meets people where they are without surrendering what he intends for them. The concessions of the law are a mirror held up to the human heart, showing what it is, not what it was made to be. Christ has come to deal with the hardness itself, giving new hearts rather than merely better paperwork.
Mark 10:5 in the Original Language
sklerokardia (σκληροκαρδία), 'hardness of heart' -- a heart grown stiff, dull, and unyielding.
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What does Mark 10:5 mean?
Jesus says Moses wrote that provision because of the people's hardness of heart, not as God's ideal.