Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
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Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
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Iesus loked vpon them and sayde: with men it is vnpossible but not with God: for with God all thynges are possible.
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But Iesus looked vpon them, and sayd, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
Cross-references (13)
Passages linked to Mark 10:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 32:27 “Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?
- Matthew 19:26 Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- Job 42:2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
- Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
- Genesis 18:13-14 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’ Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
- Luke 1:37 For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”
- Luke 18:27 But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”
- Numbers 11:21-23 Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’ Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?” Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
- Hebrews 11:19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
- Philippians 3:21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
- 2 Kings 7:2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
- Zechariah 8:6 Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Hebrews 7:25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men…
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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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jesus answered and said, verily I say unto…
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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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Jesus looking upon them (embleqav de autoiv). The Greek…
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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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:27 This verse tends to be interpreted in one…
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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