mnt - Luke:18:18-30

mnt@Luke:18:18 @ A ruler put this question to him. "Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

mnt@Luke:18:19 @ "Why are you calling me good?"said Jesus to him; "no one is good but God.

mnt@Luke:18:20 @ "You know the commandments. "Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother."

mnt@Luke:18:21 @ "All of these," he replied, "I have kept from my youth up."

mnt@Luke:18:22 @ And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me."

mnt@Luke:18:23 @ But when he heard these words he became deeply grieved, for he was exceedingly rich.

mnt@Luke:18:24 @ Jesus looked at him and said. "How hard it is for those who have money to enter into the kingdom of God!

mnt@Luke:18:25 @ Why, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

mnt@Luke:18:26 @ "Who then can be saved?" exclaimed his hearers.

mnt@Luke:18:27 @ "Things that are impossible with men," he answered them, "are possible with God."

mnt@Luke:18:28 @ Then Peter said, "Look! we have left our homes and followed you."

mnt@Luke:18:29 @ And he said to them, "In Solemn truth I tell you that there is no one who, for the sake of the kingdom of God, has left houses, or wife, or brother, or parents, or children,

mnt@Luke:18:30 @ "who shall not certainly receive many times as much in this time, and in the age to come eternal."