The Pulpit Commentary on Mark 10:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Master, all those things have I observed from my youth ( ἐφυλαξὰμην) literally, I kept, I guarded. St. Matthew adds here (Matthew 19:20). He "What lack I yet?"—"What is still wanting in me, that I may inherit the life to come in its fullness of glory and bliss?

You seem, good Master, as a heavenly Teacher, to set forth a higher and more excellent way than that pointed out by our scribes and Pharisees. Tell me what that way is. Tell me what! still lack; for I earnestly desire to go forward in the right way that leadeth to everlasting life."

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