I will write down a multitude [of commands] for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, [even] the beloved altars.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "Assuredly I say to you, that with difficulty a rich [man] shall enter the kingdom of heaven.

And when His disciples heard, they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then is able to be saved?"

And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus, answering again, says to them, "Children, how difficult it is for those who trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

And they were exceedingly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then is able to be saved?"

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; who can hear it?"

Therefore the Jews said among themselves, "Where does this [man] intend to go that we will not find Him? Does He intend to go into the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

What is this thing which He said, 'You will seek Me and you will not find [Me], and where I am you cannot come'?"

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness,

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

concerning whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

In regard to these, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of debauchery, reviling you.

So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What might this mean?"

Now as Peter was very perplexed within himself as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, having found by inquiry the house of Simon, stood at the gateway.

And this word they kept to themselves, questioning what it meant to rise from the dead.