> I don't buy the idea that changing camel to rope is about pleasing rich people, because a rope can still nowhere near get through the eye of a needle. I agre

> I don't buy the idea that changing camel to rope is about pleasing rich people, because a rope can still nowhere near get through the eye of a needle. I agree, considering the prosperity gospel types have found a way to reinterpret the analogy literally, claiming that Jesus was actually talking about a gateway to Jerusalem called the Eye of the Needle[1] that required those with goods to hand them through the Eye to get where they're going. The analogy, in that interpretation, means that wealth was able to pass through the Eye, and thus so could the wealthy enter heaven. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate