Luke 18:26-38

²⁶“Then who can be saved?” asked those who heard this.

²⁷But Jesus said, “What is impossible with people is possible with God.”

²⁸“But we,” said Peter, “we left what belonged to us and followed you.”

²⁹“I tell you,” he answered, “that there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

³⁰who will not receive many times as much in the present, and in the age that is coming eternal life.”

³¹Gathering the Twelve around him, Jesus said to them, “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem; and there everything that is written in the prophets will be done to the Son of Man.

³²For he will be given up to the Gentiles, mocked, insulted and spat on;

³³they will scourge him, and then put him to death; and on the third day he will rise again.”

³⁴The apostles did not comprehend any of this. His meaning was unintelligible to them and they did not understand what he was saying.

³⁵As Jesus was getting near Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside, begging.

³⁶Hearing a crowd going by, the man asked what was the matter;

³⁷and, when people told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing,

³⁸he shouted out, “Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me!”