For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate
And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”
So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.
And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
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