Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Rich Ruler Asks What To Do To Inherit Life. Sell All You Have And Follow Me

¹⁸ And a certain ruler questioned Him, saying, “Good Teacher, [by] having done what shall I inherit eternal life?” ¹⁹ And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One— God. ²⁰ You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit-adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give-false-testimony, be honoring your father and mother’”. ²¹ And the one said, “I kept these all from my youth”. ²² And having heard it, Jesus said to him, “One thing is still lacking for you— Sell all that you have and distribute it to poor ones, and you will have treasure in the heavens. And come, be following Me”. ²³ But the one, having heard these things, became deeply-grieved. For he was extremely rich. ²⁴ And having seen him having become deeply grieved, Jesus said, “How difficultly the ones having wealth come into the kingdom of God. ²⁵ For it is easier that a camel enter through an opening of a needle than^[a] that a rich one enter into the kingdom of God”.

All Who Leave Behind Anything For Me Will Receive Back Many Times As Much

²⁶ And the ones having heard it said, “Who indeed can be saved?” ²⁷ And the One said, “The things impossible with humans are possible with God”. ²⁸ And Peter said, “Behold— we, having left our own things, followed You”. ²⁹ And the One said to them, “Truly I say to you^[b] all that there is no one who left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God, ³⁰ who will by any means not receive back many-times-as-much in this time, and in the coming age— eternal life”.