recognize Jesus as Messiah, although it would have been an error shared by most in Judaism (Schweizer compares Ps. 15 and Ps. 24). He still saw salvation as something to be attained by his own efforts. Until he was ready to receive it by faith as something completely undeserved, of which he was not worthy, he could not enjoy it. The words of Jesus in reply to the man are slightly different in Matthew 19:17, but the main sense remains unaltered, and both could well be loose Greek paraphrases of the