Verse 21 Although the most injurious effects upon society would result from the operation of a general rule which should make it the duty of the wealthy to distribute their property among the poor, still the requisition seems a very appropriate one to tender to a man, who, thinking that he had fully kept the moral law of God, came to a divinely-commissioned teacher, and insisted upon having some way pointed out by which he might attain to some superior and extraordinary moral excellence. There is, however, after all, some difficulty in the case. We should have expected that, instead of putting in honest and sincere inquirer suddenly to so severe a test, the Savior would have at once explained to him the spiritual nature of the law, that he might have seen his sinfulness, and his need of inward purification, and of pardon. Mark 10:25. Some have maintained that camel should be cable; and others that the Needle's Eye was a narrow gate leading into Jerusalem. Such attempts to diminish the incongruity of the image are vain, as the very object of the proverb is to present a picture of incongruity and impossibility. The expression occurs in this form in other writings of those times, and is doubtless correct as it stands.