46 Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with
a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son
of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging.47 When he
heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David,
have mercy on me!”
48 Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the
more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
49 Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called to the blind man, “Cheer
up! On your feet! He’s calling you.”50 Throwing his cloak aside,
he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.
51 “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him.
The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to
see.”
52 “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed
Jesus along the road.
35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,”
they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”
36 “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.
37 They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your
left in your glory.”
38 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you
drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”
39 “We can,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with
the baptism I am baptized with,40 but to sit at my right or left is not for me to
grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”
41 When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and
John.42 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord
it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.43 Not so with you.
Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,44 and whoever wants to
be first must be slave of all.45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be
served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
32 They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way,
and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again
he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him.33 “We are
going up to Jerusalem,” he said, “and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and
the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over
to the Gentiles,34 who
will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will
rise.”
17 As
Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.
“Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 “Why
do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19 You
know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery,
you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud,
honor your father and mother.’[d]”
20 “Teacher,”
he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”
21 Jesus
looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell
everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Then come, follow me.”
22 At
this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23 Jesus
looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter
the kingdom of God!”
24 The
disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard
it is[e] to enter
the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 The
disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, “Who then can be
saved?”
27 Jesus
looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all
things are possible with God.”
28 Then
Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”
29 “Truly
I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or
mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will
fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers,
sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to
come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and
the last first.”
