Mark 10:24

And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 18:18....

23-31 Christ took this occasion to speak to his disciples about the difficulty of the salvation of those who have abundance of this world. Those who thus eagerly seek the wealth of the world, will never rightly prize Christ and his grace. Also, as to the greatness of the salvation of those who have but little of this world, and leave it for Christ. The greatest trial of a good man's constancy is, when love to Jesus calls him to give up love to friends and relatives. Even when gainers by Christ, let them still expect to suffer for him, till they reach heaven. Let us learn contentment in a low state, and to watch against the love of riches in a high one. Let us pray to be enabled to part with all, if required, in Christ's service, and to use all we are allowed to keep in his service....

See this passage illustrated in the notes at Matthew 19:16. Mark 10:17 GONE FORTH - From the place where he had been teaching. INTO THE WAY - Into the road or path on his journey. RUNNING - Thus showing the intensity with which he desired to know the way of life. Zeal to know the way to be saved is proper, nor is it possible that it should be too intense if well directed. Nothing else is so important, and nothing demands, therefore, so much effort and haste. Mark 10:19 DEFRAUD NOT - Do not take away your neighbor’s p

EXPOSITION MARK 10:1 INSTEAD OF THE WORDS, INTO THE COASTS OF JUDEA BY THE FARTHER SIDE OF JORDAN, the passage, by a change of reading from διὰ τοῦ to καὶ. He will run thus: _into the coasts _(_borders_)_ of Judaea and beyond Jordan. Our _Lord was now on his last progress towards Jerusalem. It would appear from St. Luke (Luke 9:51) that in the earlier part of his journey he touched the frontier of Samaria. Putting the accounts together, we conclude that, being refused by the Samaritans, he passed eastwards along their frontier, having Galilee on his left, and Samaria on his right; and then crossed the Jordan, perhaps at Scythopolis, where was a bridge, and so entered Peraea. As Judaea and Galilee both lay west of the Jordan, this route above

AND THE DISCIPLES WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS WORDS,.... For they expected, in a little while, that the kingdom of the Messiah would be set up in great worldly pomp and grandeur; and that all the rich men of the nation would come into it, become his subjects, and join to support the glory and splendour of it: BUT JESUS ANSWERETH AGAIN, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, CHILDREN: it was common with the Jews to call the disciples, or scholars of the wise men, "children"; hence that saying of theirs f, התלמידים קרוים בנים, "the disciples are called children", which they prove from 2 Kings 2:3 Isaiah 8:18. HOW HARD IS IT FOR THEM THAT TRUST IN RICHES TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD! This he said partly to confirm what he had before said, at which his disciples were astonished; and partly to expl

Mark 10:13. _And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them._ They thought them too little, too insignificant, and that the Master had greater things to do; but he thinketh not so. None are too little for him. He receiveth even childish honours to himself. Mark 10:14. _But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God._ Many of them come into that kingdom, and all who some think must be like them. The child is not the hardest subject of conversion; nay, rather: Mark 10:15. Verily I say unto you,

ASTONISHED Or, amazed, that is, as Jews: knowing that temporal prosperity was, to the Jew as such, a token of divine favour. For example (Deuteronomy 28:1)....

MARK 10:24 evstin {B} The rigor of Jesus’ saying was softened by the insertion of one or another qualification that limited its generality and brought it into closer connection with the context. Thus, A C D Q ¦1 ¦13 _al_ read evstin tou.j pepoiqo,taj evpi. crh,masin (“for those who trust in riches”); W and itc insert plou,sion (“a rich man”); and 1241 reads oi` ta. crh,mata e;contej (“those who have possessions”)....

CHAPTER 10. In Judea _ 1. The question concerning Divorce. (Mark 10:1 .Matthew 19:1 ._ 2. Children are blessed by Him. (Mark 10:13. Matthew 19:13; Luke 18:15 . 3. The rich young Ruler and Warning against Riches. (Mark 10:17. Matthew 19:16; Luke 18:18 . 4. Concerni

THE GREAT REFUSAL, AND THE OBSTACLE OF RICHES. The contrast between this incident and that which precedes it is caught by Shakespeare, _Richard II,_ V. Mark 10:10 f. That Mk. designed the contrast is improbable. The incident in Mark 10:17 is clearly historic. The unwillingness of Jesus to be addressed as good, His referring the seeker after eternal life back to the commandments, and the keen personal interest which the questioner aroused in Jesus (Jesus looking on form loved him, a phrase peculiar to Mk.) all these traits guarantee the historicity and originality of the story. Mark 10:18 cannot be intended to lead on to a confession of Divinity; it is rather the expression of that humility which was part of the moral perfectio