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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Mark 10 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/mark/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/mark/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Mark 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/9.htm" title="Mark 9">◄</a> Mark 10 <a href="../mark/11.htm" title="Mark 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Jesus Teaches about Divorce</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 19:1-12">Matthew 19.1-12</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 16:18">Luke 16.18</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_1"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.1" class="v41_10_1">1</span>Then Jesus left that place, went to the province of Judea, and crossed the Jordan River. Crowds came flocking to him again, and he taught them, as he always did.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.2" class="v41_10_2">2</span>Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him. “Tell us,” they asked, “does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.3" class="v41_10_3">3</span>Jesus answered with a question, “What law did Moses give you?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.4" class="v41_10_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Their answer was, “Moses gave permission for a man to write a divorce notice and send his wife away.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.5" class="v41_10_5">5</span>Jesus said to them, “Moses wrote this law for you because you are so hard to teach. </span><span class="v41_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.6" class="v41_10_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But in the beginning, at the time of creation, ‘God made them male and female,’ as the scripture says. </span><span class="v41_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.7" class="v41_10_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> ‘And for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife,<a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.7!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v41_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.8" class="v41_10_8">8</span>and the two will become one.’ So they are no longer two, but one. </span><span class="v41_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.9" class="v41_10_9">9</span>No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.10" class="v41_10_10">10</span>When they went back into the house, the disciples asked Jesus about this matter. </span><span class="v41_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.11" class="v41_10_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He said to them, “A man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his wife. </span><span class="v41_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.12" class="v41_10_12">12</span>In the same way, a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man commits adultery.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Blesses Little Children</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 19:13-15">Matthew 19.13-15</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 18:15-17">Luke 18.15-17</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.13" class="v41_10_13">13</span>Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples scolded the people. </span><span class="v41_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.14" class="v41_10_14">14</span>When Jesus noticed this, he was angry and said to his disciples, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. </span><span class="v41_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.15" class="v41_10_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I assure you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.” </span><span class="v41_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.16" class="v41_10_16">16</span>Then he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on each of them, and blessed them.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Rich Man</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 19:16-30">Matthew 19.16-30</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 18:18-30">Luke 18.18-30</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.17" class="v41_10_17">17</span>As Jesus was starting on his way again, a man ran up, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.18" class="v41_10_18">18</span>“Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone. </span><span class="v41_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.19" class="v41_10_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; do not cheat; respect your father and your mother.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.20" class="v41_10_20">20</span>“Teacher,” the man said, “ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.21" class="v41_10_21">21</span>Jesus looked straight at him with love and said, “You need only one thing. Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.” </span><span class="v41_10_22"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.22" class="v41_10_22">22</span>When the man heard this, gloom spread over his face, and he went away sad, because he was very rich.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_23"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.23" class="v41_10_23">23</span>Jesus looked around at his disciples and said to them, “How hard it will be for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_24"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.24" class="v41_10_24">24</span>The disciples were shocked at these words, but Jesus went on to say, “My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God! </span><span class="v41_10_25"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.25" class="v41_10_25">25</span>It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_26"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.26" class="v41_10_26">26</span>At this the disciples were completely amazed and asked one another, “Who, then, can be saved?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_27"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.27" class="v41_10_27">27</span>Jesus looked straight at them and answered, “This is impossible for human beings but not for God; everything is possible for God.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_28"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.28" class="v41_10_28">28</span>Then Peter spoke up, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_29"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.29" class="v41_10_29">29</span>“Yes,” Jesus said to them, “and I tell you that those who leave home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and for the gospel, </span><span class="v41_10_30"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.30" class="v41_10_30">30</span>will receive much more in this present age. They will receive a hundred times more houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields—and persecutions as well; and in the age to come they will receive eternal life. </span><span class="v41_10_31"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.31" class="v41_10_31">31</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.31!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 20:17-19">Matthew 20.17-19</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 18:31-34">Luke 18.31-34</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_32"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.32" class="v41_10_32">32</span>Jesus and his disciples were now on the road going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of the disciples, who were filled with alarm; the people who followed behind were afraid. Once again Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and spoke of the things that were going to happen to him. </span><span class="v41_10_33"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.33" class="v41_10_33">33</span>“Listen,” he told them, “we are going up to Jerusalem where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death and then hand him over to the Gentiles, </span><span class="v41_10_34"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.34" class="v41_10_34">34</span>who will make fun of him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him; but three days later he will rise to life.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Request of James and John</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 20:20-28">Matthew 20.20-28</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_35"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.35" class="v41_10_35">35</span>Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus. “Teacher,” they said, “there is something we want you to do for us.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_36"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.36" class="v41_10_36">36</span>“What is it?” Jesus asked them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_37"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.37" class="v41_10_37">37</span>They answered, “When you sit on your throne in your glorious Kingdom, we want you to let us sit with you, one at your right and one at your left.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_38"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.38" class="v41_10_38">38</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.38!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus said to them, “You don't know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup of suffering that I must drink? Can you be baptized in the way I must be baptized?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_39"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.39" class="v41_10_39">39</span>“We can,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_39">Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink the cup I must drink and be baptized in the way I must be baptized. </span><span class="v41_10_40"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.40" class="v41_10_40">40</span>But I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. It is God who will give these places to those for whom he has prepared them.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_41"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.41" class="v41_10_41">41</span>When the other ten disciples heard about it, they became angry with James and John. </span><span class="v41_10_42"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.42" class="v41_10_42">42</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.42!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So Jesus called them all together to him and said, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the heathen have power over them, and the leaders have complete authority. </span><span class="v41_10_43"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.43" class="v41_10_43">43</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mark.10.43!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This, however, is not the way it is among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest; </span><span class="v41_10_44"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.44" class="v41_10_44">44</span>and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of all. </span><span class="v41_10_45"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.45" class="v41_10_45">45</span>For even the Son of Man did not come to be served; he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 20:29-34">Matthew 20.29-34</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 18:35-43">Luke 18.35-43</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_46"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.46" class="v41_10_46">46</span>They came to Jericho, and as Jesus was leaving with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus son of Timaeus was sitting by the road. </span><span class="v41_10_47"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.47" class="v41_10_47">47</span>When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus! Son of David! Have mercy on me!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_48"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.48" class="v41_10_48">48</span>Many of the people scolded him and told him to be quiet. But he shouted even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_49"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.49" class="v41_10_49">49</span>Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_49">So they called the blind man. “Cheer up!” they said. “Get up, he is calling you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_50"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.50" class="v41_10_50">50</span>So he threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_51"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.51" class="v41_10_51">51</span>“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_51">“Teacher,” the blind man answered, “I want to see again.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_52"><span class="reftext" id="Mark.10.52" class="v41_10_52">52</span>“Go,” Jesus told him, “your faith has made you well.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v41_10_52">At once he was able to see and followed Jesus on the road.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.7: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts do not have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and unite with his wife.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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