Mark 10:17
Mark 10:1717As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
is the parallel to , with one significant detail Luke omits: the man "ran up and fell on his knees" before Jesus before asking his question. JW commentary treats the kneeling as the ordinary cultural posture of a petitioner rather than as worship. The question itself ("what must I do to inherit everlasting life?") is read as evidence that inheritance of life is by works, supporting the JW soteriology in which obedience to Jehovah's commands is the path to paradise life.
The kneeling matters — Mark records it because it sets up Jesus's question in v. 18 ("why do you call me good?"). The man positions himself before Jesus the way one positions oneself before God. Jesus does not rebuke the posture; he probes whether the man understands what he is doing. Pair with to show the unified Synoptic picture: a ruler approaches Jesus on his knees, calls him good, asks how to inherit life — and Jesus responds by defining "good" in a way that forces the question of his own identity. The Watchtower reading collapses the rhetorical structure and treats Jesus as if he were merely a humble teacher correcting a courtesy.
As at , the NWT renders aiōnios zōē as "everlasting life" rather than "eternal life." The same systematic NWT pattern: emphasising duration over qualitative life, fitting the JW paradise-earth expectation and softening the Johannine category of life that is qualitatively divine in nature (compare where "eternal life" is defined as knowing the only true God and the one he sent).