Mark Chapter 10 verse 18 Holy Bible
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good save one, `even' God.
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And Jesus said to him, Why do you say I am good? no one is good but one, and that is God.
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But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? no one is good but one, [that is] God.
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And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
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Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one-- God.
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And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one `is' good except One -- God;
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Mark 10 : 18 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Why callest thou me good? According to the best authorities, the words in St. Matthew (Matthew 21:17) run thus: "Why askest thou me concerning that which is good? One there is who is good." The word "good" is the pivot on which our Lord's answer turns, both in St. Matthew and here. The question is doubtless put to test the young ruler's faith. If, as may be supposed, the young man used the term, "good Master," as a mere conventional expression, it was not the proper epithet to apply to our Lord, who at once transfers the praise and the goodness to God, that he might teach us to do the same. This ruler, by his mode of accosting our Lord, showed that he had not as yet a right faith in him - that he did not believe in his Godhead. Our Lord, therefore, desired to rouse him and lift him up to a higher faith. He seems to say to him, "If you call me good, believe that I am God; for no one is good, intrinsically good, but God. God alone is essentially good, and wise, and powerful, and holy. It is from him that angels and men derive a few drops, or rather some faint adumbration, of his goodness. There is none essentially, entirely, absolutely good but one, that is, God. Therefore seek after him, love him, imitate him. He alone can satisfy your longing desires, as in this life with his grace, so in the life to come with his glory; yea, with himself. For in heaven he manifested himself as the supreme good, to be tasted and enjoyed by the blessed for ever."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Why callest thou me good?--Our Lord's question is, in St. Mark's report, in harmony with that of the seeker after life eternal. Its obvious drift was to force him back upon the conditions of absolute goodness, to make him ask himself how far, and under what conditions, that word might be used relatively of any child of man.
