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23 But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was very rich.
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When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was very wealthy.
24 When Jesus saw this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!
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Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
25 In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”
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Indeed, 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.”
26 Those who heard this said, “Then who in the world can be saved?”
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Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
27 He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”
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Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
28 Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.”
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Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
29 “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God,
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“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
30 will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.”
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will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
31 Taking the twelve disciples aside, Jesus said, “Listen, we’re going up to Jerusalem, where all the predictions of the prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true.
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Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
32 He will be handed over to the Romans, and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon.
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He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him;
33 They will flog him with a whip and kill him, but on the third day he will rise again.”
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they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”
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