Matthew 19:17 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 19:17

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

BSB

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ASV

And he said unto him, Why askest thou me concerning that which is good? One there is who is good: but if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.

KJV

And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

But because he had styled Him Good Master, and had not confessed Him as God, or as the Son of God, He tells him, that in comparison of God there is no saint to be called good, of whom it is said, Confess unto the Lord, for he is good; (Ps. 118:1.) and therefore He says, There is one good, that is, God. But that none should suppose that by this the Son of God is excluded from being good, we read in another place, The good Shepherd layeth down his life for his sheep. (John 10:11.)

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But he would seem to find that faith in what he said, when he called him good Master, which the gentleman perhaps was not conscious to himself of; he intended no more than to own and honour him as a good man, but Christ would lead him to own and honour him as a good God; for there is none good but one, that is God.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Why callest thou me good? - Or, Why dost thou question me concerning that good thing? τι με ερωτας περι του αγαθου. This important reading is found in BDL, three others, the Coptic, Sahidic, Armenian, Ethiopic, latter Syriac, Vulgate, Saxon, all the Itala but one, Origen, Eusebius, Cyril, Dionysius Areop., Antiochus, Novatian, Jerome, Augustin, and Juvencus. Erasmus, Grotius, Mill, and Bengel approve of this reading. This authority appears so decisive to Griesbach that he has received this reading into the text of his second edition, which in the first he had interlined.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
εἶπεν	eipen	He said	G2036 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to him;	G846 →
τί	ti	Why	G5101 →
με	me	Me	G3165 →
ἐρωτᾷς	erōtas	you ask	G2065 →
περὶ	peri	about	G4012 →
τοῦ	tou	what is	G3588 →
ἀγαθοῦ;	agathou	good?	G18 →
εἷς	heis	One	G1520 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
ἀγαθός	agathos	good	G18 →
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
θέλεις	theleis	you desire	G2309 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
ζωὴν	zōēn	life	G2222 →
εἰσελθεῖν,	eiselthein	to enter,	G1525 →
τήρησον	tērēson	do keep	G5083 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἐντολάς.¶	entolas	commandments.	G1785 →

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
1 Samuel 2:2
There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 22:32
  For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
- Isaiah 44:6
  Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
- Psalms 86:8
  O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
- Exodus 15:11
  Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
Through
Romans 10:5
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
leads to
- Leviticus 18:5
  Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 20:11
  And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 20:21
  But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 20:13
  Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly…

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Matthew