24. When Jesus saw that the man was sad, he said, “It will be very hard for rich people to enter God’s kingdom.
25. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God’s kingdom.”
26. When the people heard this, they said, “Then who can be saved?”
27. Jesus answered, “God can do things that are not possible for people to do.”
28. Peter said, “Look, we left everything we had and followed you.”
29. Jesus said, “I can promise that everyone who has left their home, wife, brothers, parents, or children for God’s kingdom
30. will get much more than they left. They will get many times more in this life. And in the world that is coming they will get the reward of eternal life.”
31. Then Jesus talked to the twelve apostles alone. He said to them, “Listen, we are going to Jerusalem. Everything that God told the prophets to write about the Son of Man will happen.