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17 As he was starting again on his journey, a man came running up to him, and knelt at his feet and asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"
18 But Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God himself.
19 You know the commandments—'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.'
20 But he said to him, "Master, I have obeyed all these commandments ever since I was a child."
21 And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."
22 But his face fell at Jesus' words, and he went away much cast down, for he had a great deal of property.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to enter the Kingdom of God!"
24 But the disciples were amazed at what he said. And Jesus said to them again, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"
26 They were perfectly astounded and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"
27 Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God, for anything is possible for God."
28 Peter started to say to him, "Well, we have left all we had, and have followed you."
29 Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,
30 but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution—and in the coming age eternal life.
31 But many who are first now will be last then, and the last will be first."