Through the eye of a needle. It is the Lord Jesus whose teaching is that the salvation of a rich person is very hard. The translation of His words on this usually states that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. There is an ancient version of this which suggests the teaching might better be translated a rope through the eye of a needle or a play on words with camel with the word for camel used in the language Jesus spoke on Earth being like the word for rope - not just rope through a needle eye but even harder - a camel (a play on words being there in the word camel being similar to the word rope). Either way the meaning is perhaps better understood still when considering the incarnation of Jesus. He who was rich as second only to the Father, Jesus being the Son from before time began, the same was by God's doing of the impossible made a poor baby in a poor family. What, said Jesus, is impossible for Man is possible for God. And what is this Kingdom? God took a great kingdom away from the ancient Israel nation who rejected His Son - the Kingdom of the Throne of King David. He gave it to the disciples of His Son who had not rejected His Son Jesus, the Messiah or Christ (anointed prince) and to enter it means to become a disciple too and submit to the authority of Christ on King David's Throne. How to do this? By holding to His teachings and receiving God's testimony of the truth and freedom by it as a result.
