Mark 10:17-40

As  he was setting out on a journey,  a man ran up, knelt down  before him, and asked him, “Good  teacher,  what must I do to inherit  eternal life? ”  “Why do you call me good? ” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.   You know the commandments: Do not murder;   do not commit adultery;   do not steal;   do not bear false witness;   do not defraud;   honor   your father and mother. ”   , He said to him, “Teacher,  I have kept all these from my youth.” Looking at him, Jesus loved him  and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor,   and you will have treasure   in heaven.   Then come,   follow me.”   But he was dismayed by this demand, and he went away grieving,  because he had many possessions.  Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth   to enter the kingdom of God! ”   The disciples were astonished at his words. Again Jesus said to them, “Children,   how hard it is   to enter the kingdom of God! 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.” They were even more astonished, saying to one another, “Then who can be saved? ”  Looking at them, Jesus said, “With man it is impossible,   but not with God, because all things are possible with God.” Peter  began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.” “Truly I tell you,”   Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father   or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,   who will not receive a hundred times   more, now at this time   — houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions   — and eternal life   in the age to come.   But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”   They  were on the road, going up to Jerusalem,  and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were astonished, but those who followed him were afraid.  Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that would happen to him.  “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man   will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes,   and they will condemn him to death. Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles,   and they will mock him, spit on him, flog   him, and kill him, and he will rise   after three days.”   James  and John,  the sons of Zebedee,  approached him and said, “Teacher,  we want you to do whatever we ask you.” “What do you want me to do for you? ” he asked them. They answered him, “Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.”  Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking.   Are you able to drink the cup   I drink or to be baptized with the baptism   I am baptized with? ”   “We are able,” they told him. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.   But to sit at my right or left is not mine to give; instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”