25. Is it hard for a camel to go through the eye of a needle? It is even harder for the rich to enter God's kingdom!"
26. The disciples were even more amazed. They said to each other, "Then who can be saved?"
27. Jesus looked at them and said, "With man, that is impossible. But not with God. All things are possible with God."
28. Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!"
29. "What I'm about to tell you is true," Jesus replied. "Has anyone left home or family or fields for me and the good news?
30. They will receive 100 times as much in this world. They will have homes and families and fields. But they will also be treated badly by others. In the world to come they will live forever.
31. But many who are first will be last. And the last will be first."
32. They were on their way up to Jerusalem. Jesus was leading the way. The disciples were amazed. Those who followed were afraid. Again Jesus took the Twelve to one side. He told them what was going to happen to him.
33. "We are going up to Jerusalem," he said. "The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will sentence him to death. Then they will hand him over to people who are not Jews.
34. The people will make fun of him and spit on him. They will whip him and kill him. Three days later he will rise from the dead!"
35. James and John came to Jesus. They were the sons of Zebedee. "Teacher," they said, "we would like to ask a favor of you."
36. "What do you want me to do for you?" he asked.
37. They replied, "Let one of us sit at your right hand in your glorious kingdom. Let the other one sit at your left hand."
38. "You don't know what you're asking for," Jesus said. "Can you drink the cup of suffering I drink? Or can you go through the baptism of suffering I must go through?"
39. "We can," they answered. Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup I drink. And you will go through the baptism I go through.
40. But it is not for me to say who will sit at my right or left hand. These places belong to those they are prepared for."