Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. The camel-through-the-needle's-eye is the most striking image of impossibility in the Gospels: not merely difficult but humanly impossible. The needle's eye as a small gate in the Jerusalem wall is a later interpretation without ancient support; the image is deliberately the most extreme available comparison for impossibility.

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