10 ¹⁷ As he was starting out on a journey, a stranger ran up, and, kneeling before him, asked, 'Good Master, is what must I do to win eternal life?' 10 ¹⁸ Jesus said to him, 'Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 10 ^{19 [ Ex.20.12-16, Dt.5.16. ]} You know the commandments: "Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not give false evidence; do not defraud; honour your father and mother." ' 10 ²⁰ 'But, Master,' he replied, 'I have kept all these since I was a boy.' 10 ²¹ Jesus looked straight at him; his heart warmed to him, and he said, 'One thing you lack: go, sell everything you have, and give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; and come, follow me.' 10 ²² At these words his face fell and he went away with a heavy heart; for he was a man of great wealth.

10 ²³ Jesus looked round at his disciples and said to them, 'How hard it will be for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!' 10 ²⁴ They were amazed that he should say this, but Jesus insisted, 'Children, how hard it is Some witnesses insert: for those who trust in riches. to enter the kingdom of God! 10 ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.' 10 ²⁶ They were more astonished than ever, and said to one another, 'Then who can be saved?' 10 ²⁷ Jesus looked at them and said, 'For men it is impossible, but not for God; to God everything is possible.'
10 ²⁸ At this Peter spoke. 'We here', he said, 'have left everything to become your followers.' 10 ²⁹ Jesus said, 'I tell you this: there is no one who has given up home, brothers or sisters, mother, father or children, or land, for my sake and for the Gospel, 10 ³⁰ who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much-houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and land—and persecutions besides; and in the age to come eternal life. 10 ³¹ But many who are first will be last and the last first.'