<p>19:26&nbsp;<em>And Jesus looking upon them said to them: With men this is impossible, but-&nbsp;</em>The Lord maintained eye-contact with His listeners: Mt. 19:26; Mk. 3:5,34; 5:32; 8:33; 10:21, 23,27; Lk. 6:10; 20:17; 22:61; Jn. 1:42. These are all separate occurrences; the fact is really being emphasized. This paying appropriate attention with eye contact is also a good strategy for matching the silences that occur from time to time in any serious conversation.&nbsp; Most of us can tell when another is thinking by&nbsp;observing the eyes, and when they are not their eyes will tell you. The way the Lord Jesus had of lifting up His eyes was something which evidently struck the Gospel writers (Lk. 6:20; Jn. 6:5; 11:41; 17:1 cp. the emphasis upon the eyes of the risen Lord in Rev. 1:14; 2:18; 5:6; 19:12).</p>
<p><em>With God</em>- The status of&nbsp;<em>para&nbsp;</em>God is often applied to the Lord Jesus (Lk. 2:52; Jn. 6:46; 8:40; 16:27; Acts 2:33). The suggestion could be that because of the status of the Lord Jesus with the Father, such gracious salvation is possible which would be impossible if men simply had to have the steel will to obey the Father&rsquo;s ideal principles.</p>
<p><em>All things are possible</em>- Lifted from the Septuagint of the word to Sarah about the birth of Isaac (Gen. 18:14). Those Old Testament heroes were not merely stained glass figures- our own belief in salvation regardless of wealth is as dramatic as the belief of an old woman that she could have a child. The context here, however, is talking of how those who choose a lower level- in this case,&nbsp;<em>not</em>&nbsp;selling their wealth and giving to the poor- can still be saved by God&rsquo;s gracious possibility. This harmonizes with the whole theme of :12, that to some is &lsquo;given&rsquo; the possibility of living on the idea level regarding divorce and remarriage, but if that cannot be attained to, then God will still accept us. See on :21&nbsp;<em>If you will be perfect&nbsp;</em>and :25&nbsp;<em>Can be saved</em>.</p>
<p>There are at least two instances in the Gospels where the Lord Jesus is quarrying his language from the book of Job, and shows a certain identification of himself with Job. In Mt. 19:23-26 the Lord explains the irrelevance of riches to the spiritual good of entering the Kingdom, saying that &quot;with God all things are possible&quot; - without money. This is almost quoting Job 42:2, where Job comes to the conclusion that all human strength is meaningless: &quot;I know that Thou canst do everything&quot;. It may be that Jesus is even implying that through the tribulation of his life he had come to the same conclusion as Job.&nbsp;See too 5:27-30.</p>
