Why calleth thou, me good?

The Savior is speaking with a young man in Matthew 19:17, and the man says, “Good Master”, to which the Savior replies: “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Jesus was not feigning humility but was reverencing His Father—the One True God and the Example to everyone in the entire universe, but even more importantly, the Example that Jesus looks-to in every thought, word, and deed!  He does nothing, of Himself, but what He has seen the Father do!

We, as mortal humans, though also sons or daughters of God, look to Christ for our example and Christ, looks to His Father as the Ultimate Example.

That is why He could ask, “Why calleth, thou, me, good?”

JPS