Matthew 19:17 "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments."
Mark 10:18 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus ed. "No one is good-except God alone.
Jehovahs witnesses and others who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ would have us believe that these passages confirm that Jesus is claiming not to be God. However nothing is farther from the truth.
One of the clues comes from the context of the passages (something that JWs often fail to appreciate) - especially in Mark's account - and another from the Greek inflexions of the words used in the original documents. Earlier in that chapter we are told that this conversation was a part of a scene between Jesus and some Pharisees. The Pharisees were always out to trip Jesus up and on this occasion we are told they were out to 'test' him once again (v.1). We are then told that jesus explained the Law to the Pharisees, then, in a house, to his disciples, and then, outside he is tested again, where a rich man calles him 'good'.
Then he utters the words above - why do you call me good as there is only one who is good - God himself! If I was a doctor, but someone didn't believe me but then asked me a medical question about their health I could ask them - 'why are you asking me a medical question - only doctors can that sort of question', as if to say, you deny my medical training but you still want medical help. In the same way, the rich man tests Jesus and calls him 'good' but jesus, by stating that only God is good, is actually saying to the man - you have called me God and yet you deny my divinity. In a way, jesus trips up the rich man by playing his own game. In a way, here Jesus is actually claiming to be God, not by actually stating as such, but by doing something even more powerful - accepting as truth the 'Freudian slip' of a rich man out to trip him up, and actually calling him God.
There is no doubt that Jesus on many occasions claimed his own divinity. For just a few instances the references are:
These are not exhaustive of the times when Jesus claimed to be divine. There are several hundred different references in the Old Testament, the Gospels and the letters of Paul which allude either directly or indirectly to Jesus' divinity. In the event outlined in the references in the question, Jesus states exactly the same thing.
Mathew and mark
The Price Mark - 1917 was released on: USA: 21 October 1917
mathew, mark, luke, and john aka the gospels mathew, mark, luke, and john aka the gospels
Could you please clarify which punctuation mark you are referring to?
Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John
General Mathew Ridgway, and eventually by General Mark ayne Clark.. Your welcome =) General Mathew Ridgway, and eventually by General Mark ayne Clark.. Your welcome =)
Mark, John, Luke and Mathew
Mathew, Mark, Luke and John wrote the gospel.
they were all diciples and luke was to get lost
The Synopsis of Jesus' life.
mostly mathew mark luke and long.
The four gospels of the Bible are Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John.