MARK 10:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.”
Will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life — the hundredfold return is received in this present age in the kingdom community: the family of God replaces the family of origin at a hundred-to-one ratio. The list of what is received in the community (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields) mirrors the list of what was left — but the list is received without fathers (there is one Father in heaven). And along with persecutions: the persecutions are part of the present-age return, not merely a cost — they are the mark of the kingdom's genuine discipleship.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:30
Although Peter had left but few things, still he calls these his all; for even a few things keep us by the bond of affection, so that he shall be beatified who leaves a few things.
And because it is not sufficient to have left all, he adds that which makes up perfection, 'and have followed thee.' As if he said, We have done what Thou hast commanded. What reward therefore wilt Thou give us?
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