Mark 10:25 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

KJV

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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Commentary

2 voices

Clement of Alexandria

Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved? (215)

The Saviour by no means has excluded the rich on account of wealth itself, and the possession of property, nor fenced off salvation against them; if they are able and willing to submit their life to God's commandments, and prefer them to transitory objects, and if they would look to the Lord with steady eye, as those who look for the nod of a good helmsman, what he wishes, what he orders, what he indicates, what signal he gives his mariners, where and whence he directs the ship's course.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

So a rich man cannot get to heaven unless he is willing to part with the burthen of his worldly wealth, and stoop to the duties of a humble religion, and so enter at the strait gate. [2.] Others suggest that the word we translate a camel, sometimes signifies a cable-rope, which, though not to be got through a needle's eye, yet is of great affinity to it.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εὐκοπώτερόν	eukopōteron	Easier	G2123 →
ἐστιν	estin	it is	G1510 →
κάμηλον	kamēlon	[for] a camel	G2574 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
τρυμαλιᾶς	trumalias	eye	G5168 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
ῥαφίδος	rhaphidos	needle	G4476 →
διελθεῖν	dielthein	to pass	G1330 →
ἢ	ē	than [for]	G2228 →
πλούσιον	plousion	a rich man	G4145 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
βασιλείαν	basileian	kingdom	G932 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
εἰσελθεῖν.	eiselthein	to enter.	G1525 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.
leads to
- Jeremiah 2:22
  Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
- Jeremiah 9:5
  Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
- Matthew 19:24–28
  Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Jeremiah 17:9
  The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 2:30
  “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
Through
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
leads to
- Matthew 19:24
  Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Matthew 27:6–8
  The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
- Matthew 15:2–6
  “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”