And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
Our Lord Jesus was an itinerant Preacher, did not continue long in a place, for the whole land of Canaan was his parish, or diocese, and therefore he would visit every part of it, and give instructions to those in the remotest corners of it.
Commenting on Mark 10:1-12
And Jesus answered and said unto them,.... With respect to this command, or sufferance of Moses, which they urged: for the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept; it was, not because it was right in its own nature, or according to the original will of God; but, because the Jews were such cruel, and hard hearted men, that if this had not...
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. (1) God never allowed those divorces which the law tolerated. (b) See . For Moses gave them no commandment to put away their wives, but rather made a good stipulation for the wives to protect them from the stubborn hardness of their husbands.