Luke 18:25-35

²⁵It's 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 wondered, “Who can be saved then?”

²⁷Jesus replied, “What is impossible in human terms is possible for God.”

²⁸Peter said, “We left everything to follow you!”

²⁹“I tell you the truth,” Jesus told them, “anybody who leaves behind their home, wife, brothers, parents, or children for the sake of God's kingdom

³⁰will receive so much more in this life, and eternal life in the world to come.”

³¹Jesus took the twelve disciples aside, and told them, “We're going to Jerusalem, and all that the prophets wrote about the Son of man will be fulfilled.

³²He will be handed over to the foreigners he will be mocked, insulted, and spat upon.

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

³⁴But they didn't understand anything Jesus told them. The meaning was hidden from them and they didn't grasp what he was talking about.

³⁵As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting beside the road begging.