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Matthew 19:24

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It: So in the Koran, "The impious, who in his arrogance shall accuse our doctrine of falsity, shall find the gates of heaven shut; nor shall he enter till a camel shall pass through the eye of a needle."

It was a common mode of expression among the Jews to declare anything that was rare or difficult.

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