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When Jesus saw this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!
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In fact, 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 this said, “Then who in the world can be saved?”
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He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”
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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.