Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, how hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God — the teaching to the disciples follows the man's departure. How hard — not impossible (verse 27 will address that) but genuinely, structurally difficult. The rich person's challenge is not moral (wealth is not inherently evil) but psychological and spiritual: wealth creates the illusion of self-sufficiency, the false confidence that security can be purchased and maintained. The kingdom requires the dependence of the child; wealth encourages the self-reliance of the self-made.

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