Matthew 19:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

Good. All the texts omit. The accounts here(verses: Matthew 19:16-27; Mark 10:17-28, and Luke 18:18-28) are partly identical and partly complementary.

Master. Teacher. Greek. Didaskalos. See App-98. Matthew 19:1.

eternal life. life age-abiding. Greek. zue aionios. App-170. This was to be gained by "doing" in that Dispensation and since the Fall. Compare Leviticus 18:6. Now all is "done", and "eternal life is the gift of God" (Rom 6:23. 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:12).

Matthew 19:16

16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?