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But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

At that saying his countenance fell, and he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.

And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!"

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God."

Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

And James and John, the sons of Zeb'edee, came forward to him, and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you."

And he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared."

For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

And Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the blind man said to him, "Master, let me receive my sight."

And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

And he taught, and said to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

But shall we say, 'From men'?" --they were afraid of the people, for all held that John was a real prophet.

And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.

And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.