24. Jesus saw how sad the man was. So he said, “It's terribly hard for rich people to get into God's kingdom!
25. In fact, it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into God's kingdom.”
26. When the crowd heard this, they asked, “How can anyone ever be saved?”
27. Jesus replied, “There are some things that people cannot do, but God can do anything.”
28. Peter said, “Remember, we left everything to be your followers!”
29. Jesus answered, “You can be sure that anyone who gives up home or wife or brothers or family or children because of God's kingdom
30. will be given much more in this life. And in the future world they will have eternal life.”
31. Jesus took the twelve apostles aside and said:We are now on our way to Jerusalem. Everything that the prophets wrote about the Son of Man will happen there.
32. He will be handed over to foreigners, who will make fun of him, ill-treat him, and spit on him.
33. They will beat him and kill him, but three days later he will rise to life.
34. The apostles did not understand what Jesus was talking about. They could not understand, because the meaning of what he said was hidden from them.
35. When Jesus was coming close to Jericho, a blind man sat begging beside the road.
36. The man heard the crowd walking by and asked what was happening.