Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
when Jesus saw—Mark says (Mark 3:34), He "looked round about"—as if first following the departing youth with His eye—"and saith unto His disciples."
How hardly, etc.—with what difficulty. In Mark (Mark 10:24) an explanation is added, "How hard is it for them that trust in riches," etc.—that is, with what difficulty is this idolatrous trust conquered, without which they cannot enter; and this is introduced by the word "children"—sweet diminutive of affection and pity (John 21:5).
was very sorrowful—Matthew (Matthew 19:22) more fully, "went away sorrowful"; Mark still more, "was sad" or "sullen" at that saying, and "went away grieved." Sorry he was, very sorry, to part with Christ; but to part with his riches would have cost him a pang more. When Riches or Heaven, on Christ's terms, were the alternative, the result showed to which side the balance inclined. Thus was he shown to lack the one all-comprehensive requirement of the law—the absolute subjection of the heart to God, and this want vitiated all his other obediences.
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