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But Jesus called for the children, saying, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

When Jesus noticed this, he said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

He replied, "What is impossible for mere humans is possible for God."

And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

While the people were listening to these things, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

They will demolish you—you and your children within your walls—and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God."

Thus they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

So he said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob .

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him."

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

So they all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" He answered them, "You say that I am."