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They were greatly astounded and said to one another, "Then who can be saved?"
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Jesus looked at them and said, "For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible."
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Peter began to say to him, "Look, we have left everything and followed you."
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Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news,
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who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
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But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."
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They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was to happen to him,
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saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles;
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they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise again."
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James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you."
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And he said to them, "What is it you want me to do for you?"