And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
And he said unto him, Teacher, all these things have I observed from my youth.
And he answering said to him, `Teacher, all these did I keep from my youth.'
And he answering said to him, Teacher, all these things have I kept from my youth.
Mark — The Gospel of the servant in motion. The narrative hinges at Peter's confession (8:27). Before: the Servant revealed. After: the Servant suffers.
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He who declared that he had observed all the commandments had already yielded to the power of riches from the very outset.
Jerome· LETTER 118, TO JULIAN, 420patristic
And he answered and, said unto him,.... With a great deal of pertness, master, all these have I observed from my youth; See Gill on Mat 19:20. In a certain copy, Beza says, it is added, as there, "what lack I yet?" and so in one of Stephens's copies.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
However, he that could say he was free from scandalous sin, went further than many in the way to eternal life. But though we know nothing by ourselves, yet are we not thereby justified. Christ had a kindness for him;
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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 walk8
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.
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2 Timothy 3:5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
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Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…
They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
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Philippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
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For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
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Romans 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
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All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
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having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.
