For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

The Parable of the Minas

Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately.

So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

He had not consented to their decision and deed. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who himself was also waiting for the kingdom of God.