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24 Jesus watched him and said, "How hard it is for rich people 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 Indeed, 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 him asked, "Who, then, can be saved?"
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Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
27 Jesus said, "The things that are impossible for people to do are possible for God to do."
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Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
28 Then Peter said, "We've left everything to follow you."
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Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
29 Jesus said to them, "I can guarantee this truth: Anyone who gave up his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because 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 certainly receive many times as much in this life and will receive 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 Jesus took the twelve apostles aside and said to them, "We're going to Jerusalem. Everything that the prophets wrote about 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 foreigners. They will make fun of him, insult him, spit on him,
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He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him;
33 whip him, and kill him. But on the third day he will come back to life."
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they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”
34 But they didn't understand any of this. What he said was a mystery to them, and they didn't know what he meant.
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The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.
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