It was a huge demand, for he was rich . Went away grieved . He felt that Jesus had asked too much of him. He worshipped money more than God when put to the test. Not unless he is in the grip of money .
Different persons are in the power of different sins .
One Sin is enough to keep one away from Christ . Adverb from duskolos, hard to find food , fastidious, faultfinding, qen difficult. Jesus , of course, means by this comparison, whether an eastern proverb or not, to express the impossible . The efforts to explain it away are jejune like a ship 's cable, kamilon or rhafis as a narrow gorge or gate of entrance for camels which recognized stooping, etc. But the Koran may have got this figure from the New Testament.