Mark 10:27

10:27 This verse tends to be interpreted in one of two ways: (1) Although salvation by one’s own effort is impossible, by God’s grace people can be saved through faith (Eph 2:8-10). (2) God can give an unusual grace that enables people to overcome their sinful love of riches and believe. Mark does not explain his understanding.

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Mar 10:27. Πάντα, all things) Psa 62:12. Comp. in that passage and here the preceding context.

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Mar 10:27 . This saying is given diversely in the three parallels; most pithily in Mt., and perhaps nearest to the original. For the meaning vide on Mt.

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And Jesus answered and said, verily I say unto you,.... This evangelist omits what Matthew relates; that whereas Peter, and his fellow disciples had followed Christ in the present time, hereafter when he appeared in his glory, they should sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel; see Mat 19:28, and where it is added to the same sense as here;

there is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sister, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the Gospel's; for the sake of preaching, or professing Christ, and his Gospel. The word "wife" is left out in the Vulgate Latin version, perhaps because it is not repeated in the following verse; but all copies, and other versions have it; See Gill on Mat 19:29.

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27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Ver. 27. With God all things are possible] This place is much pleaded by the Papists for their fiction of transubstantiation. I tell thee (said Bonner to Philpot) that God, by his omnipotence; may make himself to be this carpet, if he will. (Acts and Mon.)

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Jesus looking upon them (embleqav de autoiv). The Greek verb implies an earnest, intense looking upon them; evidently narrated by one who, like Peter, had watched his countenance. St. Chrysostom says that he looked on them in this way that he might mitigate and soothe the timid and anxious minds of his disciples. It is as though our Lord said, "It is impossible for a rich man, embarrassed and entangled with his wealth, by his own natural strength to obtain salvation; because this is a supernatural blessing, which we cannot obtain without the like supernatural aids of grace. But with God all things are possible, because God is the Author and Source, as of nature, so of grace and glory. And he enables us, by his grace, to triumph over all the difficulties and hindrances of nature; so that rich men shall not be hindered by their riches; but, by being faithful in the unrighteous mammon, shall make it the means of their being received unto "the eternal tabernacle.

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27. [2262][2263][2264][2265] omit δέ after ἐμβλέψας.

[2262] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911.

[2263] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and one of its greatest treasures. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1889.

[2264] Codex Ephraemi. 5th cent. A palimpsest: the original writing has been partially rubbed out, and the works of Ephraem the Syrian have been written over it; but a great deal of the original writing has been recovered; of Mark we have Mar 1:17 to Mar 6:31, Mar 8:5 to Mar 12:29, Mar 13:19 to Mar 16:20. In the National Library at Paris.

[2265] Codex Sangallensis. 9th or 10th cent. Contains the Gospels nearly complete, with an interlinear Latin translation. The text of Mark is specially good, agreeing often with CL. At St Gall.

27. ἐμβλέψας. As in Mar 10:21. Christ neither explains nor softens the strong Saying in Mar 10:25, but He shows where the solution of the difficulty is to be found. God has many counter-charms with which to conquer the baleful charm of riches. The disciples had seen this conquest once (Mar 2:14), and they would soon see it done again (Luk 19:1-10). But those who would be freed from the spell must work with Him, otherwise the ἀδύνατον stands (Mar 14:10-11).

πάντα γὰρ δυνατά. The πάντα is not absolute. God’s own character places some limits, and there are others which seem to us to exist; but all things that are necessary for the salvation of mankind—and this is the point here—are possible with God. See Mar 14:36 and cf. Mar 9:23; Luk 1:37; Gen 18:14; Zec 8:6. It is an attractive conjecture that the rich man was still within hearing, and that these words were meant to reach him. They touch what seems to hare been his chief fault; see on Mar 10:18.

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27. Παρὰ ἀνθρώποις ἀδύνατον—With men it is impossible. Salvation is impossible with men; but in salvation, we are dealing not with men, but with God. The incarnation and the Holy Spirit are not within the category of human agencies, but of the Divine, and given these, even the impossibilities of human nature have to give way. πάντα γὰρ δυνατὰ. πάντα is emphatic. All things are possible with God, not because he can travel outside the ordinary agencies, and bring things to pass by a simple fiat, but because he has limitless command of all the forces in any department. In the moral and spiritual sphere, he brings things to pass, not by recourse to other than moral and spiritual agencies, but by the word, the Spirit, and the Christ, all of them agencies charged with spiritual power.

Omit δὲ, and, after ἐμβλέψας, Tisch. Treg. WH. RV. א BC* Δ 1, Memph. Omit τῷ before Θεῷ Tisch. Treg. WH. א BCNX ΓΔ. Omit ἐστι after δυνατά Tisch. Treg. (Treg. marg.) WH. א BC.

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