Luke Chapter 18 verse 19 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 that I am good? No one is good, but only God.
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But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, God.
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And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
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Jesus asked 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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Luke 18 : 19 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. The title "good" was a singular one for the young ruler to have used. It was never used to the most famous rabbis by their pupils. It implied an intense reverence, but nothing more. The young man distinctly did not then believe the Master was Divine, else he had never made the great refusal recorded directly afterwards. "To be a good man is impossible... God alone could have this honour" (Plate, 'Phaed.,' 27). "You are looking at me," said the Master, "as a man: why give me this strange, lofty title? You are looking on me only as an earthly Teacher." The great Heart-reader was reading the young man's thoughts, thoughts which soon crystallized, as we shall see, into the refused to do what he, whom he chose to style "good," directed him to carry out.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Why callest thou me good?--The agreement with St. Mark is again closer than with St. Matthew.