Mark 10:26 — Community Reflections

MARK 10:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?”

The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, who then can be saved? — the disciples' logical conclusion is correct: if the rich (the apparently blessed) cannot be saved, who can? The question is the one Jesus intends to drive them to: the answer is not found in human potential (no one can be saved by their own capacity) but in divine action (verse 27).

Church Fathers on Mark 10:26

A certain man had heard from the Lord that only they who are willing to be like little children are worthy to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and therefore he desires to have explained to him, not in parables, but openly, by the merits of what works a man may attain everlasting life.
Bede · 8th century

I wonder at this young man, who when all others come to Christ to be healed of their infirmities, begs of Him the possession of everlasting life, notwithstanding his love of money, the malignant passion which afterwards caused his sorrow.
Theophylact · 11th century

For in that He loved, or kissed him [ed. note: osculaius, interpretation in Ed. Ben. (?)], He appears to affirm the truth of his profession, in saying that he had fulfilled all those things; for on applying His mind to him, He saw that the man answered with a good conscience.
Origen · 3rd century · in Evan. tom. xv, 14

Read all 15 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain

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