Mark 10:22

he was sad "Sorrowful," says St Matthew (Matthew 19:22); "very sorrowful," says St Luke (Luke 18:23); "sad," says St Mark, or rather lowring, with a cloud upon his brow. The original word only occurs in one other place, Matthew 16:3, "for the sky is red and lowring."

he had great possessions and these he preferred to possessions in heaven, and made, as Dante calls it, "the great refusal!" "Yet within a few months," to quote the words of Keble, "hundreds in Jerusalem remembered and obeyed this saying of our Lord, and brought their goods, and laid them at the Apostles" feet" (Acts 4:34-37).