Mark 10:29
Left for My sake and for the gospel
- The gospel’s word εὐαγγέλιον euangelion · gospel
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Translations
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
And Jesus answering said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for My sake, and for the good news’,
예수께서 가라사대 내가 진실로 너희에게 이르노니 나와 및 복음을 위하여 집이나 형제나 자매나 어미나 아비나 자식이나 전토를 버린 자는
예수님께서 응답하여 이르시되, 진실로 내가 너희에게 이르노니, 나와 복음을 위하여 집이나 형제나 자매나 아버지나 어머니나 아내나 자녀나 토지를 버린 자는
Commentaries
Matthew Henry on Mark 10:23-31 as a whole
Christ took this occasion to speak to his disciples about the difficulty of the salvation of those who have abundance of this world. Those who thus eagerly seek the wealth of the world, will never rightly prize Christ and his grace. …
Read the whole commentary →Church Fathers Mark 10:29
Theophylact: But while Peter asks only concerning the disciples, our Lord makes a general answer; wherefore it goes on: "Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands." …
Read the whole commentary →Wesley
Nothing on this verse itself.
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Note
A rich man has gone away grieving, and Peter says, "Look, we have left everything and followed You" (Mark 10:28). In Jesus' answer "Me" and "the gospel" stand side by side again.
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel
Mark 10:29The man who asked about eternal life "was saddened by these words and went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth" (Mark 10:22). Jesus told His disciples how hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God, and when they asked who then could be saved, He answered that "all things are possible with God" (Mark 10:27). Peter's words come next. The sentence of this verse is finished in the next, where no one who has left these things "will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age — houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions — and in the age to come, eternal life" (Mark 10:30). In that second list no father is given back, and the words "along with persecutions" are found only in Mark.
As at 8:35, is a genitive after heneken, "for the sake of," paired with "Me." Here the older manuscripts repeat the preposition, "for My sake and for the sake of the gospel"; the text behind the KJV has it once. The other Gospels give the same saying in other words. Matthew has "for the sake of My name" (Matthew 19:29), Luke "for the sake of the kingdom of God" (Luke 18:29). Laid side by side, the three show what Mark means by the gospel: it cannot be pulled apart from the person of Christ and from His reign.
The versions differ in more than wording. The KJV and the LSV list "father, or mother, or wife," following the text behind the KJV; the BSB, following the older manuscripts, has "mother or father" and no wife. The KJV's "for my sake, and the gospel's" keeps one preposition; the BSB's "for My sake and for the gospel" and the LSV's "for My sake, and for the good news’" give two. In Greek the promise is a double negative, "there is no one who has left ... who will not receive," and the BSB keeps that shape with "no one ... will fail to receive"; the KJV breaks it into "There is no man that hath left ..." and "But he shall receive."
In the Catena, Chrysostom sets the three Gospels' phrases together and concludes: "the name of Christ is the power of the Gospel, and of His kingdom" Chrysostom. Theophylact warns that Jesus does not mean "that we should leave our fathers, without helping them, or that we should separate ourselves from our wives," and notes how the promise came true for the apostles: "Peter, for instance, leaving one house, had afterwards the houses of all the disciples" Theophylact. Matthew Henry names the hardest test: "when love to Jesus calls him to give up love to friends and relatives" Matthew Henry.
To anyone who has lost something for the gospel's sake, this verse says it has not vanished. It does not promise freedom from persecution. It promises a new household where the old one was left, and in the age to come eternal life.