28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”(A)

29 “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 me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much(B) in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come(C) eternal life.(D) 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”(E)

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27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you!(A) What then will there be for us?”

28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne,(B) you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.(C) 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[a] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:29 Some manuscripts do not have or wife.

28 Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”(A)

29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come(B) eternal life.”(C)

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