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).

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