Text -- Mark 10:25 (NET)

10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mar 10:25

¹ tc A few witnesses (˹³ 28 579 pc) read κάμιλον (kamilon, “rope”) for κάμηλον (kamhlon, “camel”), either through accidental misreading of the text or intentionally so as to soften Jesus’ words.

² sn The referent of the eye of a needle is a sewing needle. (The gate in Jerusalem known as “The Needle’s Eye” was built during the middle ages and was not in existence in Jesus’ day.) Jesus was speaking rhetorically to point out that apart from God’s intervention, salvation is impossible (v. 27).