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When the official heard this, he became sad, because he was very rich.
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Jesus watched him and said, "How hard it is for rich people 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 a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."
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Those who heard him asked, "Who, then, can be saved?"
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Jesus said, "The things that are impossible for people to do are possible for God to do."
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Then Peter said, "We've left everything to follow you."
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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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will certainly receive many times as much in this life and will receive eternal life in the world to come."
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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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He will be handed over to foreigners. They will make fun of him, insult him, spit on him,
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whip him, and kill him. But on the third day he will come back to life."