Mark 10:20
18 “Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.
19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
“Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”
21 Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
22 But the man was saddened by these words and went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”
- KJV
- And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
- WEB
- He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
- ASV
- And he said unto him, Teacher, all these things have I observed from my youth.
- DARBY
- And he answering said to him, Teacher, all these things have I kept from my youth.
- BLB
- And he was saying to Him, “Teacher, all these I kept from my youth.”
- ÅB
- Men han sa til ham: Mester! alt dette har jeg holdt fra min ungdom av.
- OTB
- Han sa til ham, “Lærer, jeg har holdt alt dette fra min ungdom.”
- B1930
- Men han sa til ham: Mester! alt dette har jeg holdt fra min ungdom av.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 33:31–32
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
Read in contextPhilippians 3:6
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
Read in contextRomans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Read in contextMatthew 19:20
“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
Read in contextLuke 18:11–12
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Read in contextMalachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
Read in contextLuke 10:29
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
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