Luk 18:25 | RWP | e4.org | Through a needle's eye ( δια τρηματος βελονης ). Both words are old. Τρημα means a perforation or hole or eye and in the N.T. only here and . Βελονη means originally the point of a spear and then a surgeon's needle. Here only in the N.T. ; have ραφιδος for needle. This is probably a current proverb for the impossible. The Talmud twice speaks of an elephant passing through the eye of a needle as being impossible.

‏ Luke 18:25

Through a needle's eye ( δια τρηματος βελονης ). Both words are old. Τρημα means a perforation or hole or eye and in the N.T. only here and Mt 19:24. Βελονη means originally the point of a spear and then a surgeon's needle. Here only in the N.T. Mr 10:25; Mt 19:24 have ραφιδος for needle. This is probably a current proverb for the impossible. The Talmud twice speaks of an elephant passing through the eye of a needle as being impossible.