[Propertalk] Fwd: The camel and the eye of the needle, Hebrew NT Application - Biblical Hebrew

[Joe Parrish]

Subject: The camel and the eye of the needle, Hebrew NT Application - Biblical Hebrew


http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm 


  
  
    

  
  
    
'The camel and the eye of the needle',       Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25



Just where is that gate in Jerusalem?
"It is easier for a camel to   go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom   of God." (Matthew 19:24)
For the last two centuries it has been common teaching in Sunday School that there is a gate in Jerusalem called the eye of the needle through which a camel could not pass unless it stooped and first had all its baggage first removed. After dark, when the main gates were shut, travellers or merchants would have to use this smaller gate, through which the camel could only enter unencumbered and crawling on its knees! Great sermon material, with the parallels of coming to God on our knees without all our baggage. A lovely story and an excellent parable for preaching but unfortunately unfounded! >From at least the 15th century, and possibly as early as the 9th but not earlier, this story has been put forth, however, there is no evidence for such a gate, nor record of reprimand of the architect who may have forgotten to make a gate big enough for the camel and rider to pass through unhindered. 
 
 
 
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