3rd Day Bul (Month 8) 26th
Tuesday November 18th, 2025
The Gospel According to Marqus 10 (KJV-YS): Part 1
Overall Introduction:
Marqus chapter ten is an introduction to Yahusha’s final ministry in Yerushalayim, where He teaches on the cost and the reward of following Him, including His doctrine on adultery, divorce, and remarriage with a living spouse, the rich young ruler’s story, His foretelling of His own death again, and His healing of blind Bartimaeus. The chapter also contains a pivotal moment where He blesses little children and teaches that the way to greatness is through service to others, which represents a dividing line between Yahusha’s public ministry and His Passion.
Marqus 10:1 – Yahusha Teaches in Yahud
Insights: The chapter starts with Yahusha leaving the areas around the Sea of Galilee (land of the lost tribes of the house of Yashar’el) and journeying to the hill country of Yahud (Judea) where the Yardan River enters the Dead Sea and the people came to Him and as was His custom, He taught and healed them.
“1. And He arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Yahud (Judea) by the farther side of Yardan: and the people resort unto Him again; and, as He was wont, He taught them again.”
Cross References Verse 1:
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 32:32-33 –“Because of all the evil of the children of Yashar’el and of the children of Yahudah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Yahudah, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. And they have turned unto Me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.”
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 12:9 – “And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.”
Yochanon (John) 18:20 – “Yahusha answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Yahudiym always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.”
Reflection: Mashiach Yahusha continues His ministry by teaching those people who wanted to learn and understand the scriptures better. Not all of them were there to learn, some were there to try and use His words against Him later. The land of Yahud was the land of the tribe of Yahudah who were the only tribe left of Yashar’el that had not been completed scattered and disbanded by Yahuah for their disobedience and refusal to guard covenant with Him.
**Chronological Gospel Cross References for Marqus 10 Verse 1: Mattithyahu 19:1-2; Luqas 9:51
Marqus 10:2-12 – Yahusha Plainly Teaches Adultery
Insights: The Pharisees come to Mashiach Yahusha to ask Him about adultery and here is where the simplest and easiest to understand teaching on this subject occurs. Marqus writes his account for those who didn’t understand Hebrew culture and the actual betrothing process that occurs before a marriage. Marqus’ account is for those of the other nations who wanted to become members of Yashar’el, the only people Mashiach Yahusha came to save, and Marqus’ account of this encounter is to ensure that it was simple enough for everyone to understand. As we will see, there is no room for confusion on the subject of adultery found here.
This subject is still not understood today, not because of the simplicity of this teaching of Yahusha in Marqus chapter ten but because of the hardness of people’s hearts. I encourage all who are reading this to pray for understanding on this subject. If you are a minister of the Besorah of Mashiach Yahusha and you teach that it is okay to divorce and remarry with a living spouse, you are in more danger of more severe punishment than those who are committing adultery. If you perform marriages for people who have living spouses, please reconsider and turn away, I have seen the consequences of this firsthand and Yahuah will punish you severely for this. Please pray and get understanding on this subject if you are in anyway involved in an adulterous relationship personally.
“2. And the Pharisees came to Him, and asked Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his woman? tempting Him. 3. And He answered and said unto them, What did Mosheh command you? 4. And they said, Mosheh suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5. And Yahusha answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6. But from the beginning of the creation Elohiym made them male and female. 7. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8. And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9. What therefore Elohiym hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 10. And in the house His talmidiym asked Him again of the same matter. 11. And He saith unto them, Whosoever shall his woman, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”
Cross References Verse 2-12:
v2: “And the Pharisees came to Him, and asked Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting Him.”
Bemidbar (Numbers) 14:22 –“Because all those men which have seen My glory, and My miracles, which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice;”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 6:16 – “Ye shall not tempt Yahuah Elohaykem, as ye tempted Him in Massah.”
Mal’akiy (Malachi) 2:16 – “For Yahuah, the Elohai of Yashar’el, saith that He hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith Yahuah Tseva’oth: therefore take heed to your ruach, that ye deal not treacherously.”
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 4:7 – “Yahusha said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt Yahuah Elohayka.”
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 10:9 –“Neither let us tempt Mashiach, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.”
Reflection: Throughout humanity’s history, we have always wanted to do what we want to do and the Pharisees were no different. They came to tempt Yahusha just as the people had tempted Him when they were in the wilderness after coming out of Mitsrayim to try and do what their wicked hearts wanted to do. The Pharisees knew the Torah and knew what the overall commandment was, that committing adultery was transgressing Yahuah’s commandments, but just as in the wilderness they wanted permission to do what they lusted after.
v-3: “And He answered and said unto them, What did Mosheh command you?”
Shemoth (Exodus) 20:14 – “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 5:18 – “Neither shalt thou commit adultery.”
Mal’akiy (Malachi) 4:4 – “Remember ye the Torah of Mosheh My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horev for all Yashar’el, with the statutes and judgments.”
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 5:27-28 – “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
Ya’aqov (James) 2:11 – “For He that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the Torah.”
Reflection: The next two verses, verses three and four, make a clear distinction between what was commanded and what Mosheh allowed. The commandment that Yahuah gave Mosheh is very simple, you shall not commit adultery and there aren’t any loopholes in this commandment, it is plain and very straightforward. The word adultery has a very simple definition and that is breaking wedlock and remarrying with a living spouse, so if you substitute this definition into the commandment it reads “you shall not break wedlock and remarry”. Throughout the scriptures it is repeated over and over that adultery is a very serious transgression of Yahuah’s Torah and the punishment is eternal death in the lake of fire.
v4: “And they said, Mosheh suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 24:1-4 – “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahuah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Yahuah Elohaykem giveth thee for an inheritance.”
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 50:1 –“Thus saith Yahuah, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.”
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:1 –“They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, saith Yahuah.”
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 19:7 – “They say unto him, Why did Mosheh then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?”
Reflection: The Pharisees already knew the answer to the question they were trying to entrap Yahusha with and they plainly state that Mosheh “suffered” (SGW 2010), or permitted, the children of Yashar’el to divorce their wives and remarry. Notice, they did not say Mosheh commanded them to divorce their wives if they found something wrong with her and remarry but he allowed it. You may ask why would Mosheh do this and the simple answer is that it was what was allowed in Mitsrayim. Throughout Yashar’el’s journeying through the wilderness, they continually rebelled against Mosheh and Aharon because they wanted to return to their former lives of sin in Mitsrayim, they missed their former lives and the ways of the world just like the “church” is doing today except the “church” will not come out of the world today, they accommodate (allow) the world and allow it to do what it wants inside of the church. The marriage covenant is the same as the covenant we have all entered into with Yahuah, it is the covenant that Yashar’el entered into with Yahuah in the wilderness and subsequently broke that covenant continuously causing Yahuah to divorce them. Notice, Yahuah did not, has not nor will He take another wife, He came back for His original wife, the lost sheep of the house of Yashar’el.
v5: “And Yahusha answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 9:6 – “Understand therefore, that Yahuah Elohayka giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.”
Tehilliym (Psalms) 95:7-11 – “For He is our Elohiym; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. To day if ye will hear His voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways: Unto whom I sware in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest.”
Yechezq’el (Ezekiel) 3:7 – “But the house of Yashar’el will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto Me: for all the house of Yashar’el are impudent and hardhearted.”
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:8 –“And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Yashar’el committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yahudah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”
Ezra v’ Nechemyahu (Nehemiah) 9:16 & 26 – “16. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to Thy commandments, & 26. Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy Torah behind their backs, and slew Thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to Thee, and they wrought great provocations.”
Ma’asiym (Acts) 7:51 – “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Ruach Ha’Qodesh: as your fathers did, so do ye.”
Ma’asiym (Acts) 13:18 – “And about the time of forty years suffered He their manners in the wilderness.”
Ivriym (Hebrews) 3:7-12 – “Wherefore “as the Ruach Ha’Qodesh saith, To day if ye will hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known My ways. So I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.” Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living Elohiym.”
Reflection: The reason that this was even allowed to be in the Torah was because of the hardness of the people’s hearts. The command to not commit adultery had been clearly given twice before this but the people lusted after their former life and Yahuah knew that they were going to do it anyway, so He had to set rules that would protect the women from being treated like a piece of property and having men divorce and remarry them at will. Even though it was not His will, Yahuah set rules to protect the people from themselves. Stiff necks and hard hearts caused the people of Yahuah to depart from Him resulting in Him divorcing them. Today, if you are reading this, harden not your hearts to provoke Yahuah from allowing you to not enter into His rest.
v6: “But from the beginning of the creation Elohiym made them male and female.”
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1:27 –“So Elohiym created man in His own image, in the image of Elohiym created He him; male and female created He them.”
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 2:20-23 –“And A’dam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for A’dam there was not found an help meet for him. And Yahuah Elohiym caused a deep sleep to fall upon A’dam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which Yahuah Elohiym had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. And A’dam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Mal’akiy (Malachi) 2:14-16 – “Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Yahuah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not He make one? Yet had he the residue of the Ruach. And wherefore one? That He might seek a seed of Elohiym. Therefore take heed to your ruach, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For Yahuah, the Elohai of Yashar’el, saith that He hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith Yahuah Tseva’oth: therefore take heed to your ruach, that ye deal not treacherously.”
Marqus (Mark) 13:19 – “For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which Elohiym created unto this time, neither shall be.”
2nd Kepha (Peter) 3:3-4 – “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
Chazon (Revelation) 2:20-22 – “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Iyzebel (Jezebel), which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.”
Reflection: Yahusha plainly tells them that from the beginning man was created for woman and once a couple enters into the marriage covenant, only death can dissolve the marriage covenant. The “church” is weak and ineffective today because of the sexually immoral sins that it allows it’s members to engage in by condoning them, not preaching against them and adultery is the number one sexually immoral sin it allows. People wonder why the moral fabric of the world has decayed to where it is and it is because o the destruction of the family unit with adultery leading the way.
v7: “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;”
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 2:24 –“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Tehilliym (Psalms) 45:10-11 – “Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for He is thy Adonai; and worship thou Him.”
Eph’siym (Ephesians) 5:30-33 – “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Mashiach and the called-out assembly. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
Reflection: A man chooses to leave the family he was created from to be joined as one with his wife to create a family of their own. This union is similar, if not identical but unseen now, to Elohiym creating man in His image to have the relationship with him and we become one flesh with Him in the covenant we take to love and obey Him, to be His bride when He returns and to be fruitful and multiply with Yahuah through His Ruach.
v8: “And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.”
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 6:15-18 –“Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Mashiach? shall I then take the members of Mashiach, and make them the members of an harlot? Elohiym forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith He, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto Yahuah is yachad (one ruach). Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
Eph’siym (Ephesians) 5:28 – “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
Reflection: The two become one flesh so that the only way to separate them is through the death of one of the flesh. The man and woman are one unit, the way it was originally intended to be by Yahuah.
v9: “What therefore Elohiym hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1:28 –“And Elohiym blessed them, and Elohiym said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Romaiym (Romans) 7:1-3 – “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Torah,) how that the Torah hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by that mitsvah (law) to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the mitsvah of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that mitsvah; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 7:39 –“The wife is bound by that mitsvah as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in Yahuah.”
Galatiym (Galatians) 5:19-21 –“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Elohiym.”
Ivriym (Hebrews) 13:4 – “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers Elohiym will judge.”
Reflection: Once the covenant has been cut and consummated in front of Elohiym, no one can break it, not even the man and woman who made the covenant. It is ruach binding to Yahuah until the death of one of the flesh dissolves the covenant.
v10: “And in the house His talmidiym asked Him again of the same matter.”
1st Hayamiym (Chronicles) 16:11 – “Seek Yahuah and His strength, seek His face continually.”
Mishlei (Proverbs) 8:17 – “I love them that love Me; and those that seek Me early shall find Me.”
Mishlei (Proverbs) 16:16 – “How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!”
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 29:13 –“And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.”
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:7-8 – “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
Reflection: Just as the talmidiym sought the understanding from Yahusha, I implore everyone to seek Yahuah’s guidance on this subject. If you sincerely ask Father Yahuah to reveal to you His Truth on this subject, He will guide you.
v11-12: “And He saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his woman, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”
Luqas (Luke) 16:17-18 – “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the Torah to fail. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.”
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 7:4 & 10-11 – “4. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife… & 10. And unto the married I command, yet not I, but Yahuah, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.”
Reflection: Mashiach Yahusha plainly tells His talmidiym the Truth on the subject of adultery to where there is no room for any kind of confusion, if the man or the woman gt married after the divorce, they are committing adultery as long as the other lives. In the stand alone teaching in Luqas on this subject referenced above, where it plainly states the same thing that is stated here in Marqus, why is it preceded by the fact that heaven and earth will pass away before Yahuah’s Word will? I beg you to not let lust, pride or the hardness of your heart keep you from seeing the truth on this subject. No matter how you cut it, from the beginning until the end of the scriptures, it plainly commands us against committing adultery.
**Chronological Gospel Cross References for Marqus 10 Verses 2-12: Mattithyahu 19:3-12
Marqus 10:13-16 – Yahusha Blesses the Children
Insights: The most important members of mankind are brought to Yahusha for Him to bless them and the talmidiym rebuke their parent for bringing them. This displeases Yahusha very much and He tells them to allow the children to be brought to Him, to not stop them because they are what makes the kingdom of Elohiym and that if we do not receive the kingdom of Elohiym as a little child, we cannot enter into it. He then takes the children in His arm and blesses them.
Is it a coincidence that this passage about children comes right after the teaching on adultery? If it isn’t a coincidence, then what can this teach us about the divorce? If it is a coincidence, then why does the teaching on children come right after
“13. And they brought young children to Him, that He should touch them: and His talmidiym rebuked those that brought them. 14. But when Yahusha saw it, He was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the Kingdom of Elohiym. 15. Amein I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of Elohiym as a little child, he shall not enter therein. 16. And He took them up in His arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed them.”
Cross References Verses 13-16:
v13: “And they brought young children to Him, that He should touch them: and His talmidiym rebuked those that brought them.”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 28:4 – “Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 31:12-13 – “Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Yahuah Elohaykem, and observe to do all the words of this Torah: And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear Yahuah Elohaykem, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Yardan to possess it.”
Tehilliym (Psalms) 127:3 – “Lo, children are an heritage of Yahuah: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.”
Mishlei (Proverbs) 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Reflection: Yahuah loves children and He blesses them. We are called to love them as well and this includes us introducing them to Yahuah, teaching them about Him and His commandments.
v14: “But when Yahusha saw it, He was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of Elohiym.”
Bemidbar (Numbers) 14:31 –“But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.”
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 65:23-24 –“They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahuah, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 32:39-40 – “And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear Me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me.”
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 7:14 –“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they set-apart.”
Reflection: One of the things that Yahuah dislikes the most is to prevent children from coming to Him. We are to not hinder anyone from coming to Him, especially children, young and old, because they/we are the kingdom of Elohiym.
v15: “Amein I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of Elohiym as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 55:8-9 –“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith Yahuah. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Mishlei (Proverbs) 3:5-6 – “Trust in Yahuah with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.”
Luqas (Luke) 10:21 – “In that hour Yahusha rejoiced in the Ruach, and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Yahuah of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in Thy sight.”
Yochanon (John) 3:3-7 – “Yahusha answered and said unto him, Amein, amein, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of Elohiym. Nicodemus saith unto Him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?Yahusha answered, Amein, amein, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Ruach, he cannot enter into the kingdom of Elohiym. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Ruach is ruach. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. ”
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 2:14-16 –“But the natural man receiveth not the things of Ruach Elohiym: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of Yahuah, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Mashiach.”
Reflection: Yahusha plainly tells the talmidiym and us that we should have the mentality of wanting to know and open mind about the things of Elohiym just a child has curiosity and openness to the new things it learns as it grows. We have to be born again and learn an entirely new way of looking at the world in order to enter the kingdom of Elohiym. The things of Yahuah cannot be understood using fleshly and worldly thinking, it can only be understood through the Ruach of Yahuah.
v16: “And He took them up in His arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed them.”
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 48:14-169 –“And Yashar’el stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephrayim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Menashshseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Menashshseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Yoseph, and said, Elohiym, before whom my fathers Avraham and Yitschaq did walk, the Elohiym which fed me all my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Avraham and Yitschaq; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 28:1-3 – “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Yahuah Elohayka, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that Yahuah Elohayka will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yahuah Elohayka. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.”
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 40:11 –“He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.”
Marqus (Mark) 9:36-37 – “And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when He had taken him in His arms, He said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in My name, receiveth Me: and whosoever shall receive Me, receiveth not Me, but Him that sent Me.”
Luqas (Luke) 2:28-34 – “Then took he Him up in his arms, and blessed Elohiym, and said, Yahuah, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word: For mine eyes have seen Thy yeshu’ah (salvation), Which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the other nations, and the glory of Thy people Yashar’el. And Yoseph and His mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. And Shim’on blessed them, and said unto Miryam His mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Yashar’el; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;”
Yochanon (John) 21:15-17 – “So when they had dined, Yahusha saith to Shim’on Kepha, Shim’on, son of Yonah, lovest thou Me more than these? He saith unto Him, Yea, Adonai; Thou knowest that I love Thee. He saith unto him, Feed My lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Shim’on, son of Yonah, lovest thou Me ? He saith unto Him, Yea, Adonai; Thou knowest that I love Thee. He saith unto him, Feed My sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Shim’on, son of Yonah, lovest thou Me ? Kepha was grieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me? And he said unto Him, Adonai, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee. Yahusha saith unto him, Feed My sheep.”
Reflection: If we obey the commandments of Yahuah and come to Him as little children, we will receive abundant blessings from Him. These blessings will be of the ruach and not worldly and we will be able to enter into His kingdom.
**Chronological Gospel Cross References for Marqus 10 Verses 13-16: Mattithyahu 19:13-15 ; Luqas 18:15-17
Overall Reflection of Marqus 10 Part 1:
In the first sixteen verses of the tenth chapter of the Besorah of Marqus Yahusha travels from Galilee region to the region of Yahud on His way to Yerushalaiym where He encounters people once again searching Him out to heal them and teach them. The Pharisees, because of their hard hearts and lust, try to entrap Him in the subject of divorce and remarriage. He teaches them that there is no way for people to remarry after they are divorced and have a living spouse without committing adultery. Marqus records this so that those who do not understand the Hebrew betrothal before marriage will understand it plainly. The same event was recorded by Mattithyahu and he records it so that those who understand the Hebrew betrothal would understand it. The record found here is for the majority of believers today who do not go through the formal Hebrew betrothal process before they enter into covenant of marriage. The first part of chapter ten comes to a close with the teaching on children. It is my personal belief from what I have studied and been led to by Ruach Elohiym that this was intentionally placed after the adultery teaching in both Mattithyahu and Marqus because children are most affected by divorce. No child wants to come from a family that their mother and father have divorced and remarried another person while their other parent is still alive. It places a great stumbling block before the child because inside they know this is not the way it is supposed to be. Divorce hurts everyone involved, whether they admit it or not and the children are always hurt the most.