Mark 10:25
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
KJV
εὐκοπώτερόν ἐστιν κάμηλον διὰ τῆς τρυμαλιᾶς τῆς ῥαφίδος διελθεῖν ἢ πλούσιον εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ εἰσελθεῖν.
Greek NT
Facilius est camelum per foramen acus transire, quam divitem intrare in regnum Dei.
Vulgate
It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
ASV
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- τῆς τρυμαλιᾶς τῆς — SBLGNT
- τῆς τρυμαλιᾶς τῆς — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- τρυμαλιᾶς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
- διελθεῖν — SBLGNT
- διελθεῖν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- εἰσελθεῖν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Jer 13:23 — Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
- Luke 18:25 — For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
- Matt 5:20 — For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
- Matt 7:3 — And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- Matt 19:24 — And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
- Matt 23:24 — Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.