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by schiem 451 days ago
To head off typical response to that passage - the idea that "the eye of a needle" was referencing a literal gate in Jerusalem (changing the meaning of the passage from "impossible" to "you might have to squeeze a little bit") is a post-hoc justification with no basis in reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate