For 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.
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Gill's Exposition
For it is easier for a camel,.... These words were spoken to the disciples again, and were a second address to them, after they had shown astonishment at the former; See Gill on Mat 19:24 and See Gill…
Adam Clarke
It as easier for a camel - Instead of καμηλον, a camel, S, and four other MSS., read καμιλον, a cable. See the same reading noticed on the parallel place, Mat 19:24 (note).
In these verses we have,
I. Christ's discourse with a ruler, that had a good mind to be directed by him in the way to heaven. In which we may observe,
1. It is a blessed sight to see persons of…
Cambridge Bible
for a camel to go through a needles eye To soften the apparent harshness of this expression, some have conjectured Kamilon, -a rope;" and some have explained -the needle's eye" of the small side gate…