Mark 10 Bible study: Followed Jesus on the way

"Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”" (10:2) (tap divorce). Jesus answers with a question: "What did Moses command you?" (10:3). They say, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her" (10:4). He asked what Moses commanded, and they answer with what Moses allowed: in Greek these are two different verbs. Jesus says, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment" (10:5) (tap hardness of heart). Then he goes back further than Moses: "But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female" (10:6), "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife" (10:7), "and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh" (10:8). Those words stand near Genesis, where "male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27; compare Genesis 5:2), and "Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24); the WEB words them a little differently. Then Jesus says, "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate" (10:9) (tap joined together). They spoke of the certificate Moses allowed (10:4; compare Deuteronomy 24:1); he answers from the beginning of the creation.

Exodus 20:12→leads toMark 10:19-21

When a man asked, "what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" (Mark 10:17), Jesus answered with this chapter: "You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’" (Mark 10:19). The WEB words them a little differently from Exodus 20:12-16, and "Do not defraud" isn't one of the ten. When the man said, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth" (Mark 10:20), Jesus "loved him, and said to him, ‘One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.’" (Mark 10:21).

ὁδόςhodossay hod-OS

Strong's: "a road; by implication, a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively, a mode or means". Thayer lists 10:32 and 10:52 under "a traveller's way, journey, travelling". The chapter has it four times: "As he was going out into the way" (10:17), "They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem" (10:32), Bartimaeus "sitting by the road" (10:46), and, at the end, "followed Jesus on the way" (10:52). It was the word of 8:27, "On the way he asked his disciples", and of 9:34, where they "had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest". Mark has it 17 times (counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates), the first two in the book's opening quotation: "who will prepare your way before you" (1:2).