Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” 24 The disciples were amazed at his words. So Jesus again said to them in reply, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to pass through [the] eye of [a] needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” 26 They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves, “Then who can be saved?” 27 Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.” 28 Peter began to say to him, “We have given up everything and followed you.” 29 Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 30 who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with per

He was driving out a demon [that was] mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute person spoke and the crowds were amazed.   15 Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.”   16 Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven.   17 But he knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house.   18 And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons.   19 If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges.   20 But if it is by the finger of God that [I] drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.   21 When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe.   22 But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distri

He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” 22 So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” 23 He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. 24 That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” 25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. 26 I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.” 27 They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. 28 So Jesus said [to them], “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. 29 The one who sent me

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing with one another what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?   20 Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.   21 When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.   22 So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.   23 On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.   24 Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.   25 “I have told you this in figures of speech. The hou

I have told you this so that you may not fall away.   2 They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.   3 They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.   4 I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you.  “I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you.   5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’   6 But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.   7 But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.  8 And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation: 9 sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; 11 condemnation, because