Many consider this print the apotheosis of Rembrandt's activity in etching. In one frame, Rembrandt illustrates no fewer than four moments from chapter nineteen of the Gospel of Saint Matthew, including the famous (mistranslated) parable, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven." The rich young man sits with his hand over his face to the left of Christ, while the camel stands in an almost total shadow in the extreme right. With the central, towering position of Christ and the movement of light to dark across the surface, Rembrandt's composition unifies the print's narrative complexity. Here, Rembrandt merges technique—his experiments with multiple sources of light and the full range of light, dark, and gray tones—and message.