camel. With its burden. Not. cable, as some suggest.
go. pass,
through. Greek. dia. App-104.Matthew 19:1.
the eye. Greek. trupema. Occurs only here.
the eye of. needle.. small door fixed in. gate and opened after dark. To pass through, the camel must be unloaded. Hence the difficulty of the rich man. He must be unloaded, and hence the proverb, common in the East. In Palestine the "camel"; in the Babylonian Talmud it is the elephant.
the kingdom of God. The third of five occurrences in Matthew. See note on Matthew 6:33, and App-114.