Matthew 19:16
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
KJV
Καὶ ἰδοὺ εἷς προσελθὼν αὐτῷ εἶπεν· διδάσκαλε, τί ἀγαθὸν ποιήσω ἵνα σχῶ ζωὴν αἰώνιον;
Greek NT
Et ecce unus accedens, ait illi : Magister bone, quid boni faciam ut habeam vitam æternam ?
Vulgate
And behold, one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
ASV
And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἰώνιος
aionios
adjective · 70×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διδάσκαλος
didaskalos
noun · 60×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
προσέρχομαι
proserchomai
verb · 87×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀγαθός
agathos
adjective · 102×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: αὐτῷ εἶπεν | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτῷ εἶπεν | RP: εἶπεν αὐτῷ
- αὐτῷ εἶπεν — SBLGNT
- αὐτῷ εἶπεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- εἶπεν αὐτῷ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: Διδάσκαλε | WH/Treg/NIV: Διδάσκαλε | RP: + ἀγαθέ
- Διδάσκαλε — SBLGNT
- Διδάσκαλε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἀγαθέ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: σχῶ | WH/Treg/NIV: σχῶ | RP: ἔχω
- σχῶ — SBLGNT
- σχῶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἔχω — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2052"Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" To the young man who asked this question, Jesus answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as the "One there is who is good," as the supreme Good and the source of all good. Then Jesus tells him: "If you would enter life, keep the commandments." and he cites for his questioner the precepts that concern lov…
Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
2. Do you see how many prizes, how many crowns, He appoints for this race? If he had been tempting, He would not have told him these things. But now He both says it, and in order to draw him on, He also shows him the reward to be great, and leaves it all to his own will, by all means throwing into the shade that which seemed to be grievous in His advice. Wherefore even before m…
2. Yet none of these things made them take courage, and this when they were continually hearing about His resurrection. For together with His death this also especially troubled them, to hear that men should mock and scourge Him, and the like. For when they considered His miracles, the possessed persons whom He had delivered, the dead whom He had raised, all the other marvellou…
2. See by how many things He has warned them. He said, You condemn your fathers, in that you say, We would not have been partakers with them; and this is no little thing to shame them. He said, While ye condemn them, you do worse things, even ye yourselves; and this is sufficient to cover them with disgrace. He said, These things shall not be without punishment; and hence he im…
1. Beloved, we need great diligence in all things, for we shall render account of and undergo a strict enquiry both of words and works. Our interests stop not with what now is, but a certain other condition of life shall receive us after this, and we shall be brought before a fearful tribunal. For we must appear before the Judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may receive the…
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered. The disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? Matthew 17:10 The disciples indeed who went up with Jesus remembered the traditions of the scribes concerning Elijah, that before the advent of Christ, Elijah would come and prepare for Him the souls of those who w…
Of the goodness of God explained in the creation of things, and of the Trinity as found in the first words of Genesis. The story concerning the origin of the world (Genesis 1) is allegorically explained, and he applies it to those things which God works for sanctified and blessed man. Finally, he makes an end of this work, having implored eternal rest from God. Chapter 1. He Ca…
Cross-references
- 1John 1:2 — (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
- 1John 2:25 — And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
- 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
- 1Tim 6:12 — Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
- 1Tim 6:19 — Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
- Acts 16:30 — And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
- Dan 12:2 — And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- John 3:15 — That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- John 4:14 — But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- John 6:28 — Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
- John 6:47 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
- John 6:68 — Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
- John 10:28 — And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- John 12:25 — He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
- John 17:2 — As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
- Jude 1:21 — Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
- Lev 19:18 — Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- Luke 10:25 — And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
- Luke 10:25 — And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
- Luke 18:18 — And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
- Luke 18:18 — And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
- Mark 10:17 — 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?
- Mark 10:17 — 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?
- Matt 13:22 — He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
- Matt 19:29 — And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting
- Matt 19:29 — And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting
- Matt 25:46 — And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
- Mic 6:6 — Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
- Rom 2:7 — To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
- Rom 5:21 — That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Rom 6:22 — But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
- Titus 1:2 — In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
- Titus 3:7 — That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.