Luke 18:27-43

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.

35When Jesus was getting near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the side of the road. He was asking people to give him money.

36Then he heard a large crowd of people as they went along the road. So he asked the people near him what was happening.

37They told him, ‘Jesus from Nazareth is walking past.’

38The man began to shout out. ‘Jesus! Son of David! Please be kind to me and help me.’

39The people who were walking at the front of the crowd were angry with him. They told him that he should be quiet. But he started to shout even louder, ‘Son of David! Please help me!’

40Then Jesus stopped. He said to the people, ‘Bring that man to me.’ When the man came near, Jesus asked him,

41‘What do you want me to do for you?’ ‘Sir,’ the blind man replied, ‘I want to see again.’

42Jesus said to him, ‘See again! You are well now because you believed in me.’

43Immediately, the man could see again. He started to follow Jesus along the road. He was praising God. Many people saw what had happened. They also praised God.