Mark 10:25

It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Of course, it is impossible for a camel to go through a needle's eye, and the Lord's words are therefore hyperbole, used for the sake of emphasizing the difficulty. As Turlington put it, "The `impossible' figure is given, not to be taken literally, but to emphasize how hard it is."[31] In view of the Lord's plain statement in Mark 10:27, all efforts to understand such a thing as possible must fail.