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A man asks Jesus about eternal life. In which Gospel does Jesus answer, "Why do you ask me about what is good?"

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The answer

Matthew. In Matthew 19:17 Jesus says, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is one who is good." In Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19 he says, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone."

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Why it’s interesting

In Matthew the man asks "what good deed must I do," so good describes the deed, not Jesus. Matthew may have moved the word so that no reader would think Jesus was saying he was not good.

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