22. The man was upset when Jesus told him to give away his money. He didn’t want to do this, because he was very rich. So he went away sad.
23. Then Jesus looked at his followers and said to them, “It will be very hard for a rich person to enter God’s kingdom!”
24. The followers were amazed at what Jesus said. But he said again, “My children, it is very hard to enter God’s kingdom!
25. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God’s kingdom!”
26. The followers were even more amazed and said to each other, “Then who can be saved?”
27. Jesus looked at them and said, “That is something people cannot do, but God can. He can do anything.”
28. Peter said to Jesus, “We left everything to follow you!”
29. Jesus said, “I can promise that everyone who has left their home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or farm for me and for the Good News about me
30. will get a hundred times more than they left. Here in this world they will get more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and farms. And with these things they will have persecutions. But in the world that is coming they will also get the reward of eternal life.
31. Many people who have the highest place now will have the lowest place in the future. And the people who have the lowest place now will have the highest place then.”
32. Jesus and those with him were on their way to Jerusalem. He was at the front of the group. His followers were wondering what was happening, and the people who followed behind them were feeling afraid. Jesus gathered the twelve apostles again and talked with them alone. He told them what would happen in Jerusalem.
33. He said, “We are going to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the leading priests and teachers of the law. They will say that he must die and will hand him over to the foreigners,
34. who will laugh at him and spit on him. They will beat him with whips and kill him. But on the third day after his death, he will rise to life again.”