Robert Gundry on the rich young ruler and the mistaken conclusion that every Christian must sell all he or she has (Zacheus, remember, sold half of what he had, not all, and was commended by Jesus--the issue is, do you use your wealth, be it however great or small, for kingdom purposes):
That Jesus did not command all his followers to sell all their possessions gives comfort only to the kind of people to whom he would issue that command.
--Matthew: A Commentary (1982), 388, quoted in Craig Blomberg, Matthew, in NAC, 299
Interesting. I so appreciate Dr. Gundry. The class I took from him at Westmont was always very thought provoking.
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