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Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!" The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
"Christ and the Rich Young Ruler" by Heinrich Hofmann. Jesus and the rich young man (also called Jesus and the rich ruler) is an episode in the life of Jesus recounted in the Gospel of Matthew 19:16–30, the Gospel of Mark 10:17–31 and the Gospel of Luke 18:18–30 in the New Testament. It deals with eternal life [1] [2] and the world to ...
The Parable of the Rich Fool by Rembrandt, 1627. The Parable of the Rich Fool is a parable of Jesus which appears in the Gospel of Luke. It depicts the futility of the belief that wealth can secure prosperity or a good life. This parable has been depicted by several artists, including Rembrandt, Jan Luyken, James Tissot, and David Teniers the ...
Social influence often induces a rich-get-richer phenomenon where popular products tend to become even more popular. [23] An example of the Matthew Effect's role on social influence is an experiment by Salganik, Dodds, and Watts in which they created an experimental virtual market named MUSICLAB.
The rich man and Lazarus (also called the parable of Dives and Lazarus) [a] is a parable of Jesus from the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. [6] Speaking to his disciples and some Pharisees , Jesus tells of an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Lazarus.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an aphorism attributed to Percy Bysshe Shelley. In A Defence of Poetry (1821, not published until 1840) Shelley remarked that the promoters of utility had exemplified the saying, "To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away.
It’s not why Haiti is poor: While the unread reverend would like you to believe the Dominican Republic has an anointing-based economy, Dominicans are as likely to identify as Christian as Haitians .
Also called "Dives and Lazarus", or "The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus", the narrative tells of the relationship (in life and in death) between an unnamed rich man and a poor beggar named Lazarus. In Hell, the dead rich man calls to Abraham in Heaven to send Lazarus from his side to warn the rich man's family from sharing his fate.