Matthew 19:25 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 19:25

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when the disciples heard it, they were astonished exceedingly, saying, Who then can be saved?

KJV

When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

According to this, no rich man can be saved. But if we read Isaiah, how the camels of Midian and Ephah came to Jerusalem with gifts and presents, and they who once were crooked and bowed down by the weight of their sins, enter the gates of Jerusalem, we shall see how these camels, to which the rich are likened when they have laid aside the heavy load of sins, and the distortion of their whole bodies, may then enter by that narrow and strait way that leads to life.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

His disciples were amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? - If rich men, with all their advantages, cannot? A poor man; a peasant; a beggar: ten thousand of them, sooner than one that is rich.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Who can be saved? - The question of the disciples seemed to intimate that most people were rich, and that therefore scarcely any could be saved. They certainly must have attached a different meaning to what constitutes a rich man, to what we in general do. Who is a rich man in our Lord’s sense of the word? This is a very important question, and has not, that I know of, been explicitly answered.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἀκούσαντες	Akousantes	Having heard	G191 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
μαθηταὶ	mathētai	disciples	G3101 →
ἐξεπλήσσοντο	exeplēssonto	were astonished	G1605 →
σφόδρα	sphodra	exceedingly	G4970 →
λέγοντες·	legontes	saying;	G3004 →
τίς	tis	Who	G5101 →
ἄρα	ara	then	G686 →
δύναται	dunatai	is able	G1410 →
σωθῆναι;	sōthēnai	to be saved?	G4982 →

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
Romans 10:13
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
leads to
- Joel 2:32
  And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by…
- Acts 2:21
  And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
Through
Matthew 24:22
If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
leads to
- Mark 13:20
  If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.
- 2 Timothy 2:10
  For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
- Matthew 24:31
  And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
- Matthew 24:24
  For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
- Luke 18:7
  Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
Through
Mark 13:20
If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.
leads to
- Matthew 24:22
  If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Matthew

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Matthew