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For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle`s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
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A Proverb for the Impossible
Commentators explain that Jesus' statement about a camel and a needle's eye was a known type of proverb for something impossible. One scholar notes a similar Talmudic saying about an elephant. This was a vivid hyperbole meant to make an unforgettable point about the extreme difficulty for the wealthy to enter God's kingdom, not a literal description.
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Through a needle's eye (δια τρηματος βελονης). Both words are old. Τρημα means a perforation or hole or eye and in the N.T. only h…
19th Century
Anglican
Through a needle’s eye.—The Greek word for “needle” in the better manuscripts differs from that in St. Matthew and St. Mark, and i…
Baptist
Yet some people spend all their lives in the earnest endeavor to make it hard for them to be saved. They are trying, as much as they can, to block …
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The ruler’s sorrow over the decision about his wealth recalls the far deeper sorrow rich people who have incurred Jesus’ “woe” will experience (6:2…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For it is easier for a camel These words were spoken to the disciples again, and were a second address to them, afte…
Presbyterian
Many have a great deal in them that is very commendable, yet they perish for lack of one thing. Thus, this ruler could not bear Christ's terms, whi…
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