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Gospel Reading - Riches and renunciation

I know this is a kids story but it holds some important information and has a point to make.

²³Jesus watched him go, then turned around and said to his disciples, “It’s almost impossible for the rich to get into the Kingdom of God!”

²⁴This amazed them. So Jesus said it again: “Dear children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches^a to enter the Kingdom of God. ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.”

²⁶The disciples were incredulous! “Then who in the world can be saved, if not a rich man?” they asked.

²⁷Jesus looked at them intently, then said, “Without God, it is utterly impossible. But with God everything is possible.”

²⁸Then Peter began to mention all that he and the other disciples had left behind. “We’ve given up everything to follow you,” he said.

²⁹And Jesus replied, “Let me assure you that no one has ever given up anything — home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or property — for love of me and to tell others the Good News, ³⁰who won’t be given back, a hundred times over, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land — with persecutions!

“All these will be his here on earth, and in the world to come he shall have eternal life. ³¹But many people who seem to be important now will be the least important then; and many who are considered least here shall be greatest there.”

1. Some of the ancient manuscripts do not contain these words.