Acts 17:20

¹⁴Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹²I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

²³but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,

¹⁸For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

⁴They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

¹²They were all amazed and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

⁶⁰Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

¹¹About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

¹⁰They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

²³Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. ²⁴Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

²⁵When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”