1 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

3 He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

4 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. 7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 If a woman herself divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

13 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. 15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." 16 He took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

18 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’"

20 He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."

21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "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."

22 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!"

24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom."

26 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

27 Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

28 Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all and have followed you."

29 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, 30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first."

32 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. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him. 33 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. 34 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."

35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."

36 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

37 They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left hand, in your glory."

38 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?"

39 They said to him, "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; 40 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."

41 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John.

42 Jesus summoned them and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. 44 Whoever of you wants to become first among you shall be bondservant of all. 45 For the Son of Man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. 47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" 48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

49 Jesus stood still and said, "Call him."

They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"

50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

51 Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?"

The blind man said to him, "Rabboni, that I may see again."

52 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.

1 En Hy het opgestaan en daarvandaan deur die oorkant van die Jordaan na die gebied van Judiagegaan; en weer het 'n skare by Hom vergader; en soos Hy gewoond was, het Hy hulle weer geleer.

2 Toe kom die Fariseërs na Hom; en, om Hom te versoek, stel hulle Hom die vraag of dit 'n man geoorloof is om van sy vrou te skei?

3 Maar Hy antwoord en sê vir hulle: Wat het Moses julle beveel?

4 En hulle sê: Moses het toegelaat om 'n skeibrief te skrywe en van haar te skei.

5 En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hulle: Vanweë die hardheid van julle harte het hy vir julle hierdie gebod geskrywe,

6 maar van die begin van die skepping af het God hulle man en vrou gemaak.

7 Om hierdie rede sal die man sy vader en moeder verlaat en sy vrou aankleef,

8 en hulle twee sal een vlees word, sodat hulle nie meer twee is nie, maar een vlees.

9 Wat God dan saamgevoeg het, mag geen mens skei nie.

10 En in die huis het sy dissipels Hom weer oor dieselfde saak gevra.

11 En Hy sê vir hulle: Elkeen wat van sy vrou skei en 'n ander een trou, pleeg egbreuk teen haar;

12 en as 'n vrou van haar man skei en met 'n ander een trou, pleeg sy egbreuk.

13 En hulle het kindertjies na Hom gebring, dat Hy hulle kon aanraak; en die dissipels het die wat hulle gebring het, bestraf.

14 Maar toe Jesus dit sien, het Hy hulle dit baie kwalik geneem en vir hulle gesê: Laat die kindertjies na My toe kom en verhinder hulle nie, want aan sulkes behoort die koninkryk van God.

15 Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, elkeen wat die koninkryk van God nie soos 'n kindjie ontvang nie, sal daar nooit ingaan nie.

16 En Hy het sy arms om hulle geslaan, sy hande op hulle gelê en hulle geseën.

17 En toe Hy op die pad uitgaan, hardloop daar een na Hom toe en val voor Hom op die knieë en vra Hom: Goeie Meester, wat moet ek doen om die ewige lewe te beërwe?

18 En Jesus sê vir hom: Waarom noem jy My goed? Niemand is goed nie, behalwe Een, naamlik God.

19 Jy ken die gebooie: Jy mag nie egbreek nie, jy mag nie doodslaan nie, jy mag nie steel nie, jy mag geen valse getuienis gee nie, jy mag niemand te kort doen nie; eer jou vader en jou moeder.

20 Maar hy antwoord en sê vir Hom: Meester, al hierdie dinge het ek onderhou van my jeug af.

21 En Jesus het hom aangekyk en hom liefgekry en vir hom gesê: Een ding kom jy kort -- gaan verkoop alles wat jy het, en gee dit aan die armes, en jy sal 'n skat in die hemel hê; kom dan hier, neem die kruis op en volg My.

22 Maar hy het treurig geword oor die woord en bedroef weggegaan, want hy het baie besittings gehad.

23 Toe kyk Jesus rond en sê vir sy dissipels: Hoe beswaarlik sal hulle wat goed besit, in die koninkryk van God ingaan!

24 En die dissipels was verbaas oor sy woorde; maar Jesus antwoord weer en sê vir hulle: Kinders, hoe swaar is dit vir die wat op hulle goed vertrou, om in die koninkryk van God in te gaan!

25 Dit is makliker vir 'n kameel om deur die oog van 'n naald te gaan as vir 'n ryk man om in die koninkryk van God in te gaan.

26 En hulle was uitermate verslae en het vir mekaar gesê: Wie kan dan gered word?

27 Maar Jesus het hulle aangekyk en geantwoord: By mense is dit onmoontlik, maar nie by God nie; want by God is alle dinge moontlik.

28 Toe begin Petrus vir Hom te sê: Kyk, ons het alles verlaat en U gevolg.

29 En Jesus antwoord en sê: Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, daar is niemand wat huis of broers of susters of vader of moeder of vrou of kinders of grond ter wille van My en van die evangelie verlaat het nie,

30 of hy ontvang nou in hierdie tyd honderd maal soveel: huise en broers en susters en moeders en kinders en grond, saam met vervolginge, en in die eeu wat kom, die ewige lewe.

31 Maar baie wat eerste is, sal laaste wees, en die wat laaste is, eerste.

32 En hulle was op die pad terwyl hulle opgaan na Jerusalem, en Jesus het voor hulle uit gegaan, en hulle was verbaas; en terwyl hulle volg, het hulle gevrees. En Hy het weer die twaalf by Hom geneem en aan hulle begin vertel die dinge wat met Hom sou gebeur.

33 Kyk, sê Hy, ons gaan op na Jerusalem, en die Seun van die mens sal oorgelewer word aan die owerpriesters en die skrifgeleerdes, en hulle sal Hom tot die dood veroordeel en Hom oorlewer aan die heidene;

34 en hulle sal Hom bespot en Hom g,sel en op Hom spuug en Hom doodmaak; en op die derde dag sal Hy opstaan.

35 En Jakobus en Johannes, die seuns van Sebed,s, het na Hom gekom en gesê: Meester, ons wil hê dat U vir ons moet doen wat ons U ook al mag vra.

36 En Hy sê vir hulle: Wat wil julle hê moet Ek vir julle doen?

37 En hulle antwoord Hom: Gee aan ons dat ons mag sit in u heerlikheid, een aan u regter-- en een aan u linkerhand.

38 Maar Jesus sê vir hulle: Julle weet nie wat julle vra nie. Kan julle die beker drink wat Ek drink, en gedoop word met die doop waarmee Ek gedoop word?

39 En hulle antwoord Hom: Ons kan. Maar Jesus sê vir hulle: Dis waar, die beker wat Ek drink, sal julle drink, en met die doop waarmee Ek gedoop word, sal julle gedoop word;

40 maar om te sit aan my regter-- en aan my linkerhand, berus nie by My om te gee nie, maar dit is vir hulle vir wie dit berei is.

41 En toe die tien dit hoor, begin hulle verontwaardig te word oor Jakobus en Johannes.

42 Maar Jesus het hulle na Hom geroep en vir hulle gesê: Julle weet dat die wat gereken word as owerstes van die nasies, oor hulle heers, en dat hulle groot manne oor hulle gesag uitoefen;

43 maar so moet dit onder julle nie wees nie, maar elkeen wat onder julle groot wil word, moet julle dienaar wees.

44 En elkeen wat onder julle die eerste wil word, moet almal se dienskneg wees.

45 Want die Seun van die mens het ook nie gekom om gedien te word nie, maar om te dien en sy lewe te gee as 'n losprys vir baie.

46 En hulle het in J,rigo gekom. En toe Hy en sy dissipels en 'n aansienlike skare uit J,rigo uitgaan, sit die blinde man, Bartim,s, die seun van Tim,s, langs die pad en bedel.

47 En toe hy hoor dat dit Jesus die Nasar,ner was, begin hy om uit te roep en te sê: Seun van Dawid, Jesus, wees my barmhartig!

48 En baie het hom bestraf, dat hy moet stilbly; maar hy het al harder uitgeroep: Seun van Dawid, wees my barmhartig!

49 Toe gaan Jesus staan en sê dat hy geroep moes word; en hulle roep die blinde man en sê vir hom: Hou goeie moed, staan op! Hy roep jou.

50 En hy gooi sy oorkleed af, staan op en kom na Jesus toe.

51 En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: Wat wil jy hê moet Ek vir jou doen? En die blinde man sê vir Hom: Rabboni, dat ek mag sien.

52 En Jesus sê vir hom: Gaan, jou geloof het jou gered. En dadelik het hy gesien en Jesus op die pad gevolg.