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when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand people? How many baskets full of leftover pieces did you take up?" "Twelve," they answered.

"And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand people," asked Jesus, "how many baskets full of leftover pieces did you take up?" "Seven," they answered.

For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for me and for the gospel, you will save it.

Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, "Teacher, how good it is that we are here! We will make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

"Yes," said Jesus, "if you yourself can! Everything is possible for the person who has faith."

For whoever is not against us is for us.

"If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around the neck and be thrown into the sea.

So if your hand makes you lose your faith, cut it off! It is better for you to enter life without a hand than to keep both hands and go off to hell, to the fire that never goes out.

And if your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off! It is better for you to enter life without a foot than to keep both feet and be thrown into hell.

And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out! It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into hell.

Their answer was, "Moses gave permission for a man to write a divorce notice and send his wife away."

Jesus said to them, "Moses wrote this law for you because you are so hard to teach.

‘And for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife,

Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples scolded the people.

Jesus looked around at his disciples and said to them, "How hard it will be for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!"

It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."

Jesus looked straight at them and answered, "This is impossible for human beings but not for God; everything is possible for God."

"Yes," Jesus said to them, "and I tell you that those who leave home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and for the gospel,

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus. "Teacher," they said, "there is something we want you to do for us."

Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup of suffering that I must drink? Can you be baptized in the way I must be baptized?"