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Gospel Reading - For the sake of the gospel

A rerun of the 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. 31 But 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.