Contradictions and Paradoxes in Mark 10:3

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Mark 10:3 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Mark 10:3. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Mark, Jesus is asking the people what Moses taught them. He wanted them to think about the rules they learned long ago.

Mark 10:3: And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

Contradiction with Matthew 5:17

This verse states that Jesus did not come to destroy the law, which contrasts with Mark 10:3 where Jesus challenges the Pharisees on the application of the law.

Matthew 5:17: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Contradiction with Matthew 19:8

Jesus acknowledges that Moses allowed divorce because of the hardness of people's hearts, differing from Mark 10:3 where Jesus asks what Moses commanded.

Matthew 19:8: He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Contradiction with Galatians 2:16

This verse emphasizes that a person is not justified by the works of the law, contradicting Mark 10:3's emphasis on Moses' commandments.

Galatians 2:16: Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Contradiction with Romans 7:6

This verse speaks about being delivered from the law, which contradicts the implication in Mark 10:3 that the law of Moses is still directly applicable.

Romans 7:6: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter. [that being...: or, being dead to that]
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