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.
32. He will be handed over to the foreigners, who will laugh at him, insult him, and spit on him.
33. They will beat him with whips and then kill him. But on the third day after his death, he will rise to life again.”
34. The apostles tried to understand this, but they could not; the meaning was hidden from them.
35. Jesus came near the city of Jericho. There was a blind man sitting beside the road. He was begging people for money.
36. When he heard the people coming down the road, he asked, “What is happening?”
37. They told him, “Jesus, the one from Nazareth, is coming here.”
38. The blind man was excited and said, “Jesus, Son of David, please help me!”
39. The people who were in front leading the group criticized the blind man. They told him to be quiet. But he shouted more and more, “Son of David, please help me!”
40. Jesus stopped there and said, “Bring that man to me!” When he came close, Jesus asked him,