Why callest thou me good? Here, but not in the parallel passages in Mark and Luke, the leading MSS. read, "Why askest thou me about what is good? He who is good is one." With either reading the drift of our Lord's answer is to cause reflection. "In a single breath thou hast twice used the word good; think what good really means. Am Ithen the one good?" Jesus refuses the conventional title of "good master;" and leads the questioner to think of the only One who could be called "good" in a high and true sense.

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