It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God — the camel through the eye of a needle is the most extravagant impossibility image in the Gospels. Various interpretive attempts to soften it (a gate called the Needle's Eye, ropes instead of camels) lack historical support. The point is the genuine impossibility — and verse 27 will clarify: with God, the impossible is possible. The image is not a counsel of despair but the establishment of the problem that only divine action can solve.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse