Mark 10

“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.

“What did Moses command you?”

They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

“Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“Why do you call Me good?”

“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 cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

“Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”

Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Who then can be saved?”

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and declared, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask.”

“What do you want Me to do for you?”

They answered, “Grant that one of us may sit at Your right hand and the other at Your left in Your glory.”

“We can,” the brothers answered.

“You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”

So Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them. But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.

When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Many people admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”

“Take courage!” they said. “Get up! He is calling for you.”

“What do you want Me to do for you?”

“Rabboni,” said the blind man, “let me see again.”

“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.”