Mark 10:23-31

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²³ Jesus looked slowly around. Then he said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!”

²⁴ The disciples were astonished at what he was saying. So Jesus repeated once more, “Children, it’s very hard to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter God’s kingdom.”

²⁶ They were totally amazed, and said to each other, “So who then can be saved?”

²⁷ “It’s impossible for mortals,” Jesus said, looking hard at them, “but it’s not impossible for God. All things are possible for God.”

²⁸ “Look here,” Peter started up, “we’ve left everything and followed you.”

²⁹ “I’ll tell you the truth,” replied Jesus. “No one who has left a house, or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children, or lands, because of me and the gospel, ³⁰ will fail to receive back a hundred times more in the present age: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands—with persecutions!—and finally the life of the age to come. ³¹ But plenty of people at the front will end up at the back, and the back at the front.”