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However, Yeshua called the children to him and said, "Let the children come to me, and stop hindering them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
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Yes! I tell you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will not enter it at all!"
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One of the leaders asked him, "Good rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?"
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Yeshua said to him, "Why are you calling me good? No one is good but God!
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You know the mitzvot -- `Don't commit adultery, don't murder, don't steal, don't give false testimony, honor your father and mother, . . .'"
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He replied, "I have kept all these since I was a boy."
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On hearing this Yeshua said to him, "There is one thing you still lack. Sell whatever you have, distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!"
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But when the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was very rich.
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Yeshua looked at him and said, "How hard it is for people with wealth 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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Those who heard this asked, "Then who can be saved?"
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He said, "What is impossible humanly is possible with God."
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Kefa said, "Look, we have left our homes and followed you."
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Yeshua answered them, "Yes! I tell you that everyone who has left house, wife, brothers, parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
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will receive many times as much in the `olam hazeh, and in the `olam haba eternal life."
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Then, taking the Twelve, Yeshua said to them, "We are now going up to Yerushalayim, where everything written through the prophets about the Son of Man will come true.
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For he will be handed over to the Goyim and be ridiculed, insulted and spat upon.
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Then, after they have beaten him, they will kill him. But on the third day he will rise."
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However, they understood none of this; its meaning had been hidden from them, and they had no idea what he was talking about.
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As Yeshua approached Yericho, a blind man was sitting by the road, begging.
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When he heard the crowd going past, he asked what it was all about;