With God all things are possible.

Christ Jesus’ definitive assertion reprises Scripture. God asks Abraham, “Is any thing too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14). Jeremiah affirms, “There is nothing too hard for thee” (Jeremiah 32:17). And the angel Gabriel assures Jesus’ mother, Mary, “With God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37, citation 12). Now the Master adds this statement to his teaching about who can be saved (see Matthew 19:23–25).

I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. . . . Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: . . . For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else. . . . Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. . . . Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength.