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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.â
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The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, âWho then can be saved?â
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Jesus looked at them and said, âWith man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.â
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Then Peter spoke up, âWe have left everything to follow you!â
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âTruly I tell you,â Jesus replied, âno one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel
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will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fieldsâalong with persecutionsâand in the age to come eternal life.
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But many who are first will be last, and the last first.â
Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time
32 They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him.
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âWe are going up to Jerusalem,â he said, âand the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles,
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who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.â
The Request of James and John
35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. âTeacher,â they said, âwe want you to do for us whatever we ask.â