Chapter
10
She arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to her again. As she usually did, she was again teaching them.
Pharisees came to her testing her, and asked her, "Is it lawful for a woman to divorce her husband?"
She answered, "What did Moses command you?"
They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce him."
But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, she wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them female and male.
For this cause a woman will leave her mother and father, and will join to her husband,
and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, let no woman separate."
In the house, her disciples asked her again about the same matter.
She said to them, "Whoever divorces her husband, and marries another, commits adultery against him.
If a man himself divorces his wife, and marries another, he commits adultery."
They were bringing to her little children, that she should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
But when Jesus saw it, she was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, she will in no way enter into it."
She took them in her arms, and blessed them, laying her hands on them.
As she was going out into the way, one ran to her, knelt before her, and asked her, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
Jesus said to her, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one--God.
You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your mother and father.'"
She said to her, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."
Jesus looking at her loved her, and said to her, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."
But her face fell at that saying, and she went away sorrowful, for she was one who had great possessions.
Jesus looked around, and said to her disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
The disciples were amazed at her words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich woman to enter into the Kingdom of God."
They were exceedingly astonished, saying to her, "Then who can be saved?"
Jesus, looking at them, said, "With women it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."
Petra began to tell her, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."
Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or sisters, or brothers, or mother, or father, or husband, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
but she will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, sisters, brothers, fathers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
But many who are first will be last; and the last first."
They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. She again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to her.
"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Daughter of Woman will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn her to death, and will deliver her to the Gentiles.
They will mock her, spit on her, scourge her, and kill her. On the third day she will rise again."
Jamie and Johanna, the daughters of Zebedee, came near to her, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
She said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
They said to her, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
They said to her, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards Jamie and Johanna.
Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations domina it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondmaid of all.
For the Daughter of Woman also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give her life as a ransom for many."
They came to Jericho. As she went out from Jericho, with her disciples and a great multitude, the daughter of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
When she heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, she began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you daughter of Davina, have mercy on me!"
Many rebuked her, that she should be quiet, but she cried out much more, "You daughter of Davina, have mercy on me!"
Jesus stood still, and said, "Call her." They called the blind woman, saying to her, "Cheer up! Get up. She is calling you!"
She, casting away her cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus asked her, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind woman said to her, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."
Jesus said to her, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately she received her sight, and followed Jesus in the way.