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Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.”
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“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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will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.”
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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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He will be handed over to the Romans, and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon.
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They will flog him with a whip and kill him, but on the third day he will rise again.”
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But they didn’t understand any of this. The significance of his words was hidden from them, and they failed to grasp what he was talking about.
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As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind beggar was sitting beside the road.
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When he heard the noise of a crowd going past, he asked what was happening.
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They told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by.
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So he began shouting, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”