this was the normal way of addressing him, and Jesus’s response (10:18) to the earlier address of “Good Teacher” would no doubt have discouraged his being addressed like this again. In 10:21, Jesus does not enter into an elaborate discussion of what it truly means to keep the commandments but instead zeroes in on the specific issue that reveals the man’s basic problem. He lacks “one” thing. This “one thing” (ἕν, hen) stands in the emphatic position in the sentence and contrasts with “all these things” (ταῦτα