Mark 10:27 — Community Reflections

MARK 10:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.”

Jesus looked at them and said, with man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God — the paradox of salvation is stated at its maximum: human impossibility, divine possibility. With man this is impossible — the entry into the kingdom cannot be achieved, earned, or worked toward sufficiently by any human being, rich or poor. But not with God: the same God for whom all things are possible (Genesis 18:14, Jeremiah 32:17) can do what no human achievement can accomplish — bring a person into the kingdom through grace.

Church Fathers on Mark 10:27

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

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