35 As
Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. 36 When
he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. 37 They
told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”
38 He
called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
39 Those
who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the
more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
40 Jesus
stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus
asked him, 41 “What do you want me to do for you?”
“Lord,
I want to see,” he replied.
42 Jesus
said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.” 43 Immediately
he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw
it, they also praised God.
31 Jesus
took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and
everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be
fulfilled. 32 He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They
will mock him, insult him and spit on him; 33 they will flog
him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”
34 The
disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and
they did not know what he was talking about.
18 A
certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal
life?”
19 “Why
do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 20 You
know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder,
you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and
mother.’[a]”
21 “All
these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.
22 When
Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything
you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come,
follow me.”
23 When
he heard this, he became very sad, because he was very wealthy. 24 Jesus
looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of
God! 25 Indeed, 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 Those
who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
27 Jesus
replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
28 Peter
said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
29 “Truly
I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers
or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will
fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal
life.”
15 People
were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the
disciples saw this, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called the
children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not
hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 17 Truly
I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child
will never enter it.”
