If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

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Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded those who brought them.

But at this statement, the man looked sad and went away sorrowful, for he was very rich.

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

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions – and in the age to come, eternal life.

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders let them go.

He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

Then he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.

Then he will send angels and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.