Charles Ellicott Commentary Mark 10:18

"And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good save one, [even] God." — Mark 10:18 (ASV)

Why callest thou me good?—Our Lord’s question is, in St. Mark’s report, in harmony with that of the seeker after life eternal. Its obvious drift was to force him back upon the conditions of absolute goodness, to make him ask himself how far, and under what conditions, that word might be used relatively of any child of man.