New Testament · Gospel

Mark 10:27

The Servant King

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” Mark 10:27 · Berean Standard Bible
What It Means

Mark 10:27, in plain English

Jesus looked at them and said, 'With people this is impossible, but not with God. All things are possible with God.' That's the hope that changes everything.

Why it's here

You can't save yourself. You were never supposed to. Salvation is God's work, and nothing is impossible for Him.

Who's speaking

Jesus speaks the most hopeful words imaginable.

Where it sits in the story

After all the shock and impossibility, Jesus gave them the answer: God. What you can't do, God can. What seems impossible from your side is completely possible from His.

A Closer Look

The scholarly reading

Jesus' gaze (emblepsas) precedes the definitive statement: 'With man this is impossible, but not with God — for all things are possible with God' (panta dynata para tō theō), echoing Genesis 18:14 and Job 42:2.

Language and setting

This verse is the theological hinge of the passage: salvation is not a human achievement but a divine gift. The impossibility from the human side is met by omnipotence from God's side.

Voice

Jesus looks at them and delivers the Gospel in miniature.

Significance

Jesus looks directly at His overwhelmed disciples and speaks the words that hold salvation together: what is humanly impossible is divinely possible. All things are possible with God.

In context

Mark 10:25–29

25It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

26They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Who then can be saved?”

27Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

28Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”

29“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

Read all of Mark 10 — Jesus redefines greatness. The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve — and to give His life as a ransom.

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