Bible Questions # 2600-2607
Mark 10:17-
2600. A man came running to Jesus and asked what question? _____________________
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2601. What question does Jesus ask the man? _________________________________
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( The man thinks that Jesus is good, then Jesus is reminding him that only God is good. So, in a way Jesus is asking the man if he believes that he, Jesus is God.)
2602. Jesus quoted to the man some of the 10 commandments. What did the man answer? ___________________________________________________________
2603. Vs. 21 Jesus told him that there was one thing he was missing or has not done.
What did Jesus tell him to do? ___________________________________________
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2604. Vs. 22 What did the man think of what Jesus told him? __________________
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2605. Vs. 23 Jesus said to the disciples, It is hard for the ______________ t o enter into the kingdom of God.
2606. Jesus said the reason they have a hard time believing and coming into the kingdom of God is because they trust in their __________________.
(One of the reasons the disciples had such a hard time understanding what Jesus said
was because ever since Old Testament times people believed that riches were a blessing that God gave to those who were “good” men. If a man was poor, then it was because God did not bless them or they were under the “curse“ of God.)
(So the disciples were thinking if the rich who are blessed by God can not enter into the kingdom of heaven then how can anyone with less enter into the kingdom of heaven.)
(Yet, even David, and Solomon saw how evil men were rich and successful and sometimes “good” men were poor.)
(There is a verse in the Bible that tells how God sends the rain on the “just”/”good”
and on the “unjust”.
God may be allowing evil men to have riches, but it does not mean that God likes or approves of what they are doing.)
Vs. 25 Jesus uses a “saying” that was used in that part of the world. Talking about something large going through the “eye of a needle” was to mean that it was impossible thing to happen.
I want to insert here a copy of something from the internet called the Eye of the Needle.
Most Christians realize that the Gospels weren’t originally written in English. Some think they were written in Latin, most believe they were first written in Greek. Very possibly though, some if not all were written in the language of Yeshua and His followers, Aramaic. This language was all but forgotten until about a hundred years ago, which is why few students are familiar with it. Dr. George Lamsa, who has written extensively about the language and in his book entitled Gospel Light clarifies for us the probable meaning of Yeshua’s words concerning the eye of a needle. I will quote from page 167.
“The Aramaic word gamla means camel, a large rope and a beam. The meaning of the word is determined by its context. If the word riding or burden occurs then gamla means a camel, but when the eye of a needle is mentioned gamla more correctly means a rope. There is no connection anywhere in Aramaic speech or literature between camel and needle, but there is a definite connection between rope and needle.”
Nearly all of the English versions of the Gospels came from Greek texts by translators who may have known little about Aramaic. Thus camel would have been translated instead of rope. It takes little effort to imagine Yeshua, while walking along the sea coast, pointing to a rope and saying, “It is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God”. Consider also the interesting comment of the Aramaic scholar Andrew Gabriel Roth, where he explains that the rope analogy simply meant that it had to be unwound to pass through the eye of a needle.
So Jesus said for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven would be as easy or hard
as a camel or if the word here should be interpreted as rope to go through the “eye of a needle”.
Rich people often think that they do not have need of anything. Their money can buy whatever they need.
Jesus was trying to get the man to give his riches away, to sell what he had and give to the poor. But the man did not want to do that.
Jesus also said to the man, after you give to the poor, then come to Me, take up your cross and follow Me.
What Jesus was trying to say to this person was that everyone has to give up everything to Jesus and follow Jesus.
Everything that we have, must belong to God.
Everything that we hope to do, all our dreams for the future, all our decisions and choices, all that we are, or get must be given to be under the control of Jesus.
When our hearts/minds are at the place where we give all to Jesus then we can receive eternal life and be in the kingdom of God.
God becomes the King of all we are and have.
Vs. 26 The disciples say to Jesus Who then can be saved? (They are thinking that rich people are rich because God thinks they are good and should have the blessings. If those people cannot be in the kingdom of God, then who can?)
Vs. 27 Jesus said that with men it is not possible, but with God all things are possible.
In other words, it takes God the Holy Spirit speaking to men’s hearts to get them to see that giving all to God is a good thing —– when that means a person gets heaven as home forever, and gets God to help him all his life.
Without God the Holy Spirit speaking to the heart of a man, it would be hard for a man to just give up all he has.
2607. Vs. 28. What does Peter say to Jesus? __________________________________
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