Luke 18:24-34

24Jesus saw that the ruler had become sad. He said, ‘It is very difficult for rich people to let God rule in their lives.

25The hole in a needle is very small. A camel cannot go through it! But it is even more difficult than that for a rich person to let God rule in their life.’

26The people who were listening to Jesus said, ‘So perhaps God will not save anyone!’

27Jesus replied, ‘God can do things that are impossible for people to do.’

28Peter then said to Jesus, ‘Look! We have left everything that we had. Now we are your disciples.’

29Jesus said to them, ‘I tell you this: Some people have left their homes. Or they may have left their wife or their brothers. Or they may have left their parents or their children. They have done this to work for the kingdom of God.

30Now, in this world, God will give these people many more things than they have left behind. And in the future world they will live for ever with God.’

31Jesus took the 12 disciples away from the other people. ‘Listen!’ he said to them. ‘We are going to Jerusalem. There, many bad things will happen to me. All the things that God's prophets wrote down long ago about the Son of Man will now happen to me.

32The Jewish leaders will deliver me to people that are not Jews. They will laugh at me. They will say bad things against me. They will spit at me.

33They will hit me with whips and then they will kill me. But after three days, I will become alive again.’

34The 12 disciples did not understand any of these things. What Jesus said did not mean anything to them. So they did not know what Jesus was talking about.