New Testament: Mark 10.18

To read the Bible in a year, read Mark 10.1–31 on March 4, In the year of our Lord Christ 2025

By Don Ruhl 

A young man referred to Jesus as, “Good Teacher.” He did not fully realize what he had said. 

Therefore, Jesus said: “So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God’” (Mark 10.18). 

Jesus did not deny knowing God, but that the young man needed to be discerning in his use of the word, “good,” and how he applied it. 

Questions from today’s reading and devotional: 

• What did the young man want to know? 
• What answer did Jesus give him? 

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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon. 

Listen to his sermons here: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com