nsb - Mark:10:17-31

nsb@Mark:10:17 @ As he traveled someone ran to him, kneeled and asked him: »Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit everlasting life?«

nsb@Mark:10:18 @ Jesus asked him: »Why do you call me good? None is good except God.

nsb@Mark:10:19 @ »You know the commandments, do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.«

nsb@Mark:10:20 @ »Teacher,« he said: »I have observed all of these from my youth.«

nsb@Mark:10:21 @ Jesus lovingly looked at him and said: »You lack one thing. Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.«

nsb@Mark:10:22 @ He was very sad when he heard this for he had many possessions. Then he went away.

nsb@Mark:10:23 @ Looking around Jesus said to his disciples: »It is hard for those who have riches to enter into the kingdom of God!«

nsb@Mark:10:24 @ The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus repeated it again: »Children, it is hard to enter into the kingdom of God!

nsb@Mark:10:25 @ »It is easier for a camel to go through a needles eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.«

nsb@Mark:10:26 @ They were greatly astonished! So they asked him: »Who can be saved?«

nsb@Mark:10:27 @ Jesus looked at them: »With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.«

nsb@Mark:10:28 @ Peter said to him: »We have left all and followed you.«

nsb@Mark:10:29 @ Jesus said: »Truly I tell you, a man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the good news,

nsb@Mark:10:30 @ will receive a hundred times as much now in this time, and in the age to come everlasting life.

nsb@Mark:10:31 @ »Many that are first will be last and the last first.«