8He will, I tell you, give them justice soon enough! Yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
9Another time, speaking to people who were satisfied that they were religious, and who regarded everyone else with scorn, Jesus told this parable —
10“Two men went up into the Temple Courts to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax-gatherer.
11The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way — ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men — thieves, rogues, adulterers — or even like this tax-gatherer.
12I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of everything I get to God.’
13Meanwhile the tax-gatherer stood at a distance, not venturing even to raise his eyes to heaven, but he kept striking his breast and saying ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14This man, I tell you, went home pardoned, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, while everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”
15Some of the people were bringing even their babies to Jesus, for him to touch them; but, when the disciples saw it, they began to find fault with those who had brought them.
16Jesus, however, called the little children to him. “Let the little children come to me,” he said, “and do not hinder them, for it is to the childlike that the kingdom of God belongs.
17I tell you, unless a man receives the kingdom of God like a child, he will not enter it at all.”
18And one of the leaders asked Jesus this question — “Good teacher, what must I do if I am to gain eternal life?”
19“Why do you call me good?” answered Jesus. “No one is good but God.
20You know the commandments — Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not say what is false about others, Honor your father and your mother.”
21“I have observed all these,” he replied, “from childhood.”
22Hearing this, Jesus said to him, “There is one thing still lacking in you; sell everything that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; then come and follow me.”
23But the man became greatly distressed on hearing this, for he was extremely rich.
24Seeing this, Jesus said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!
25It is easier, indeed, for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God!”
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,
Luke 18
Luke 18:8-29