Transition verses leading to 19:3
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📚And it happened that when Jesus had finished saying these words he left Galilee, and came into the region of Judea beyond Jordan. 2 📚And great crowds followed him, and he healed them there.The King teaches about marriage and divorce
3 📚The Pharisees✭ also came to him, testing him, and saying to him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?”
4 📚And he answered and said to them, “Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 📚and said, For this cause a man will leave father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the two will be one flesh? 6 📚So they are no more two, but one flesh. Therefore let not man separate what God has joined together”.
7 📚✭They said to him, “Then why did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8 📚✭He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not so. 9 📚✭And I tell you, Whoever divorces his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, and marries another, is committing adultery. And whoever marries her who is divorced is committing adultery”.
10 📚✭His disciples said to him, “If this is the case between a man and a wife, it is not good to marry”.
11 📚✭But he said to them, “All men cannot receive this statement, only those to whom it has been given. 12 📚For there are some eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are some eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs✭ for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it”.
Little children come to the King
13 📚✭Then little children were brought to him, so that he would put his hands on them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.
14 📚✭But Jesus said, “Permit little children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”.
15 📚And he laid his hands on them, and went away from there.
The King and the rich young ruler
16 📚✭✭And, suddenly, someone came and said to him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do, so that I may get eternal life?”
17 📚✭And he said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments”.
18 📚✭He said to him, “Which?” Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not give false witness, 19 📚Honour your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbour as yourself”.
20 📚✭The young man said to him, “All these I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?”
21 📚✭Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give the money to the poor,✭ and you will have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me”.
22 📚✭But when the young man heard this word, he went away sad, for he had great possessions.
The King speaks of rewards for His disciples
23 📚✭Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 📚And I tell you again, 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”.
25 📚✭When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
26 📚✭But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”.
27 📚✭Then answered Peter and said to him, “Look, we have given up everything and followed you. Therefore what will we have?”
28 📚And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, you who have followed me, in the renewal✭ when the Son of man sits on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones✭,judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 📚✭And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit everlasting life. 30 📚✭But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.