As Yeshua was setting out on His way, a man ran up to Him, fell on his knees before Him, and asked, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
“Why do you call Me good?” Yeshua said to him. “No one is good except One—that is God.
You know the commandments, ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,’ do not cheat, ‘honor your father and mother.’”
The man responded, “Teacher, all these I have kept since my youth!”
Looking at him, Yeshua loved him and said, “One thing you lack. Go, sell as much as you have, and give to the poor; and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
But at this statement, the man became sad and went away grieving, for he had much property.
Then looking around, Yeshua says to His disciples, “How hard it will be for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
The disciples were amazed at His words. But Yeshua answers again and says 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 man to enter the kingdom of God.”
The disciples were even more astonished, saying among themselves, “Then who can be saved?”
Looking at them, Yeshua said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God!”
Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we’ve left everything to follow You!”
“Amen, I tell you,” Yeshua replied, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for My sake and for the sake of the Good News,
who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and property, along with persecutions; and in the olam ha-ba , eternal life.
But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
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