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Yeshua said to him, "Why are you calling me good? No one is good except God!
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You know the mitzvot -- `Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't give false testimony, don't defraud, honor your father and mother, . .'"
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"Rabbi," he said, "I have kept all these since I was a boy."
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Yeshua, looking at him, felt love for him and said to him, "You're missing one thing. Go, sell whatever you own, give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!"
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Shocked by this word, he went away sad; because he was a wealthy man.
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Yeshua looked around and said to his talmidim, "How hard it is going to be for people with wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!"
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The talmidim were astounded at these words; but Yeshua said to them again, "My friends, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!
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It's easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."
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They were utterly amazed and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"
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Yeshua looked at them and said, "Humanly, it is impossible, but not with God; with God, every thing is possible."
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Kefa began saying to him, "Look, we have left everything and followed you."
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Yeshua said, "Yes! I tell you that there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,
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who will not receive a hundred times over, now, in the `olam hazeh, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands -- with persecutions! -- and in the `olam haba, eternal life.
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But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first!"
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They were on the road going up to Yerushalayim. Yeshua was walking ahead of them, and they were amazed -- and those following were afraid. So again taking the Twelve along with him, he began telling them what was about to happen to him.
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"We are now going up to Yerushalayim, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers. They will sentence him to death and turn him over to the Goyim,
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who will jeer at him, spit on him, beat him and kill him; but after three days, he will rise."
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Ya`akov and Yochanan, the sons of Zavdai, came up to him and said, "Rabbi, we would like you to do us a favor."
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He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"