What Does Mark 10:10 Mean?
In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.THE KEY
A teaching can keep working inside you when it becomes a question you bring back into relationship.
THE MEANING
The teaching on divorce remains difficult enough for the disciples to bring the same matter back to Jesus in the house. The verse shows a hard word continuing as a question within relationship, rather than being treated as fully understood after one hearing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that asking again means you have failed to understand: the disciples return with the same matter still open.
THE ROOT
ἐπηρώτησαν
epērōtēsan
GROWS FROM
ἐρωτάω (erōtaō; stem ἐρωτ-)
to ask, inquire, or request
“asked” in this verse is epērōtēsan. The verb names putting a matter to someone for a response, not merely thinking about it. With “again” and “the same matter,” the question itself becomes part of how the teaching is received: it stays in relationship rather than disappearing when the words end.
ALSO GROWS
erōtēma: question or inquiry
ἐρώτημα
This related noun shows the question as something addressed and awaiting response.
eperōtēma: inquiry or appeal
ἐπερώτημα
This related form can carry the sense of a request made toward someone, echoing the disciples bringing the matter back to Jesus.
οἰκία
oikia
GROWS FROM
οἶκος
oikos
house or household
The word points to a house as a setting for shared life, not just a location. Its word family also reaches toward building and household care, opening the scene as a place where difficult teaching can be taken up together.
ALSO GROWS
oikodomeō: build; build up
οἰκοδομέω
The house word family can describe what is built up, suggesting that understanding may take shape over time.
oikonomos: household steward or manager
οἰκονόμος
This branch connects the household with care and ordering, adding depth to the house as a lived-in place.
THE PATTERN
A received word can deepen when it is brought back as a question within relationship.
But without a parable he did not speak to them. Privately, to his own disciples, he untied all things.And when he entered a house, away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.Uncover my eyes, that I may gaze upon the wonders from your instruction.THE THREAD
And when he entered a house, away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.Mark 7:17 uses the same Greek verb family for the disciples’ asking. Here, too, the question is carried into the house, making private inquiry a recurring way the disciples return a difficult teaching to Jesus.
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