Matthew 19:25 · American Standard Version
Matthew 19:25 in the Original Greek
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Matthew 19:25 in Other Translations
| KJV | When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? |
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| WEB | When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” |
| ASV | And when the disciples heard it, they were astonished exceedingly, saying, Who then can be saved? |
| YLT | And his disciples having heard, were amazed exceedingly, saying, ‘Who, then, is able to be saved?’ |
| WBT | When his disciples heard [it], they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? |
| DBY | And when the disciples heard [it] they were exceedingly astonished, saying, Who then can be saved? |
Commentary on Matthew 19:25
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Matthew 19:12
For there are some eunuchs which were so born from their mother's womb--persons constitutionally either incapable of or indisposed to marriage.
and there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men--persons rendered incapable by others.
and there be eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake--persons who, to do God's work better, deliberately choose this state. Such was Paul (Co1 7:7).
He that is able to receive it, let him receive it--"He who feels this to be his proper vocation, let him embrace it"; which, of course, is as much as to say--"he only." Thus, all are left free in this matter.
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Questions about Matthew 19:25
What does Matthew 19:25 say?
Matthew 19:25 in the American Standard Version reads: “And when the disciples heard it, they were astonished exceedingly, saying, Who then can be saved?” Read it in the full context of Matthew 19, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 19:25 found in the Bible?
Matthew 19:25 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 19, verse 25, in the New Testament.
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When his disciples heard it..... That is, the difficulty of a rich man's entering into the kingdom of heaven, aggravated by the above proverbial expression,
they were exceedingly amazed. They were surprised at his first words; but when he confirmed them by the proverb of a camel's passing through the eye of a needle, they were, as Mark says, "astonished out of measure": they did not imagine there was any difficulty of rich men coming into the kingdom of the Messiah, which they took to be a worldly one, and would be filled with rich men; for so they understood Christ; though he meant by the kingdom of heaven a spiritual kingdom, a Gospel church state here, or the heavenly glory, or both; but when he expressed, by the proverb, the impracticableness of such men becoming the subjects thereof, their amazement increased;
saying, as in Mark, "among themselves", privately to one another,
who then can be saved? meaning, not with a spiritual and everlasting salvation, but a temporal one: for upon Christ's so saying, they might reason with themselves, that if rich men did not come into the kingdom of the Messiah, they would oppose him and his kingdom, with all their force and strength; and then what would become of such poor men as themselves, who would not be able to stand against them? nor could they hope to be safe long, or enjoy any continued happiness in the expected kingdom, should this be the case.