Mark 10:17-31

Williams(i) 17 As He was again starting on a journey, a man ran up to Him, and knelt to Him, and was asking Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get eternal life?" 18 And Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly 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. Practice honoring your father and mother." 20 But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child." 21 Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me." 22 But his countenance fell at that command, and he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property. 23 Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!" 24 His disciples were startled at this statement. But Jesus again said to them as He continued the topic, "My children, how hard it is to get into the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God." 26 They were perfectly dumbfounded, and said to Him, "Then who can be saved?" 27 But Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but everything is possible for God." 28 Then Peter started to say to Him, "We have left everything we had and followed you." 29 Jesus said, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farm for me and for the good news, 30 who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first now will be last then, and last now who will be first then."