Luke 18
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Luke 18:24-34

24When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

25In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

26Those who heard this said, “Then who can be saved?”

27He replied, “What is impossible for mere humans is possible for God.”

28And Peter said, “Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!”

29Then Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom

30who will not receive many times more in this age – and in the age to come, eternal life.”

31Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.

32For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on.

33They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again.”

34But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

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