Mark 10:1-31

1Then getting up from there, Yeshua goes to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. Again crowds gather around Him, and, as was His custom, He began to teach them once more.

2Pharisees came up, and to test Him they began asking, “Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife?”

3And He replied to them, “What did Moses command you?”

4The Pharisees said, “Moses permitted a man to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.”

5But Yeshua said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment!

6But from the beginning of creation, God ‘made them male and female.

7For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

8and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate!”

10In the house, the disciples began questioning Him about this again.

11And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

12And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she is committing adultery.”

13Now people were bringing little children to Yeshua so He might touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

14But when Yeshua saw this, He got angry. He told them, “Let the little children come to Me! Do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

15Amen, I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it!”

16And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.

17As Yeshua was setting out on His way, a man ran up to Him, fell on his knees before Him, and asked, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

18“Why do you call Me good?” Yeshua said to him. “No one is good except One—that is God.

19You know the commandments, ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,’ do not cheat, ‘honor your father and mother.’”

20The man responded, “Teacher, all these I have kept since my youth!”

21Looking at him, Yeshua loved him and said, “One thing you lack. Go, sell as much as you have, and give to the poor; and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

22But at this statement, the man became sad and went away grieving, for he had much property.

23Then looking around, Yeshua says to His disciples, “How hard it will be for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

24The disciples were amazed at His words. But Yeshua answers again and says to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

26The disciples were even more astonished, saying among themselves, “Then who can be saved?”

27Looking at them, Yeshua said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God!”

28Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we’ve left everything to follow You!”

29“Amen, I tell you,” Yeshua replied, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for My sake and for the sake of the Good News,

30who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and property, along with persecutions; and in the olam ha-ba , eternal life.

31But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”