at possessions.
10:23. And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples: How hardly
shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
10:24. And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again
answering, saith to them: Children, how hard is it for them that trust
in riches to enter into the kingdom of God?
10:25. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than
for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
10:26. Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: Who then can be
saved?
10:27. And Jesus looking on them, saith with men it is impossible; but
not with God. For all things are possible with God.
10:28. And Peter began to say unto him: Behold, we have left all things
and have followed thee.
10:29. Jesus answering said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who hath
left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or children or
lands, for my sake and for the gospel,
10:30. Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time:
houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with
persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.
10:31. But many that are first shall be last: and the last, first.
10:32. And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went
before them. And they were astonished and following were afraid. And
taking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should
befall him.
10:33. Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be
betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and ancients. And they
shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.
10:34. And they shall mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill
him: and the third day he shall rise again.
10:35. And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying:
Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for
us.
10:36. But he said to them: What would you that I should do for you?
10:37. And they said: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand
and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
10:38. And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink
of the chalice that I drink of or be baptized with the baptism wherewith
I am baptized?
10:39. But they said to him: We can. And Jesus saith to them: You shall
indeed drink of the chalice that I drink of; and with the baptism
wherewith I am baptized you shall be baptiz
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