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24. ἰδὼν δὲ αὐτόν. Several good uncials read merely ‘when Jesus saw him.’ The Gospel to the Hebrews as quoted by Origen on Mat 19:19 has here a weak and prosaic addition, which shews its complete inferiority.
οἱ τὰ χρήματα ἔχοντες. The striking reading of some MSS. (אB, &c.) in Mar 10:24, is that Christ, seeing the pained astonishment of the disciples, said, “Children! how hard it is to enter into the kingdom of God”—hard for all; above all, hard for the rich. Other MSS. have “for those that trust in riches” (comp. Pro 11:28)—but that would be a truism; and indeed, while they trust in riches, it would be not only hard, but impossible. The point that Jesus wished to teach was that riches are always a temptation and a snare. 1Ti 6:9-10. Let us not forget that Judas heard these words only a few days or weeks before he sold his Lord. It was almost a proverb among the ancients that “the very rich are not good.” Stobaeus, XCIII. 27.