17
WEALTHY BUT LOST
And as he departs in the way, someone comes running and kneels to him, and asks him, Good Doctor, what do I to inherit eternal life?
18 And Yah Shua says to him, Why word you me good? None is good except one, Elohim.
19 You know the misvoth, Adulterize not! Murder not! Steal not! Pseudo witness not! Defraud not! Honor your father and mother!
20 And he answers him, saying, Doctor, I guarded all these from my youth.
21 And Yah Shua, looking at him, loves him, and says to him, You lack One: go your way, sell as much as you have, and give to the poor, and you have treasure in the heavens: and come, follow me, take the stake.
22 And he is gloomy at that word, and goes away sorrowed: for he has vast possessions.
23
YAH SHUA AND RICHES
And Yah Shua looks around and words to his disciples, How difficultly they who have riches enter the sovereigndom of Elohim!
24 - and the disciples astonish at his words. And again Yah Shua answers them, wording, Children, how difficult for them who confide in riches to enter the sovereigndom of Elohim!
25 It is easier for a rope
* to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the sovereigndom of Elohim.
*see Lamsa
26 And they superabundantly astonish - wording among themselves, Who can be saved?
27 And Yah Shua, looking upon them, words, With humanity it is impossible, but not with Elohim: for with Elohim all are possible.
28 And Petros begins to word to him, Behold, we forsake all, and follow you.
29 And Yah Shua answers, saying, Amen! I word to you, no one who forsakes house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or woman or children or fields for my sake, and the evangelism,
30 but he takes a hundredfold now in this season - houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields with persecutions; and eternal life in the coming eons.