Mark 10

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1 Thence comes into the coasts of Judaea beyond the Jordan. Again it is going to the people to Him, and, as his custom, he taught them again.
2 Pharisees came to him and asked him, tempting him to divorce her husband and his wife?
3 He said to them: What did Moses command you?
4 They said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorcement, and to divorce.
5 Jesus answered them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6 At the beginning of the creation God male and female he created them.
7 Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother
8 and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
10 In the house his disciples asked him again about the same.
eleven He told them that anyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;
12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

13 And they brought young children to him, that he might touch them; disciples rebuked those that brought them.
14 Seeing [it], Jesus was indignant and said to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.
15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
16 And he took them, laid his hands on them and blessed them.

17 When he went out on a journey, a man ran up and fell on his knees before him, and asked him, Good Master! what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
18 Jesus said to him: Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
19 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
20 And he answering said to him: Master! All these have I kept from my youth.
21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing you lack: go, whatever you have, sell and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.
22 He, embarrassed by that saying, went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again answered and children! how difficult it is for them that trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!
25 Easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
26 They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves, Who then can be saved?
27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.
28 Then Peter began to say unto him: Behold, we have left everything and have followed thee.
29 Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's,
thirty and would not receive a hundredfold now in this time, with persecutions, a hundred times more houses, and brethren, and sisters, and fathers and mothers, and children, and lands, and in the age to come, eternal life.
31 Many who are first will be last, and the last first.

32 When they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went before them, and they were amazed, and following him were in fear. He took the Twelve again began to tell them what would happen to Him:
33 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles;
34 and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and spit upon him, and shall kill him; and rise again the third day.
35 [Then] come to him the sons of Zebedee, James and John, and said, Master! we want you to do for us whatever we ask.
36 He said to them, you want me to do for you?
37 They said to Him, let us sit, one on thy right hand and one at your left in your glory.
38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Can you drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
39 And they said, We can. Jesus said to them: the cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized, you will be baptized;
40 but to sit on my right hand and on the left - not from me [depends], but who in store.
41 And hearing, the ten began to be indignant at James and John.
42 But Jesus called them unto him, and said unto them, Ye know that the princes of the peoples revered lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
43 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister;
44 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.
45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give His life a ransom for many.

46 They came to Jericho. And when he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging [alms].
47 Upon hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, Son of David! have mercy on me.
48 Many forced him to be silent; but he cried the more: Son of David! have mercy on me.
49 Jesus stopped and ordered him to be called. Called the blind man, saying to him: do not be afraid, stand up, calling you.
50 He threw away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
51 Responding to him, Jesus asked: What do you want from me? The blind man said unto him, Master! that I may see.
52 Jesus said unto him, Go, thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.

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