29 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
That hath left house, or parents, etc. - See on Matthew 19:28, Matthew 19:29 (note), and Mark 10:29, Mark 10:30 (note).
Or brethren - Η αδελφας, Or Sisters, is added by the Cod. Bezae, and some others.
(9) And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
(9) They become the richest of all who do not refuse to be poor for Christ's sake.
And he said unto them,.... To his disciples, as the Ethiopic version reads; though the Syriac and Persic versions read, "and Jesus said to him"; that is, to Peter; he particularly replied to him:
verily I say unto you, there is no man: not only you shall have peculiar honour done you, as to sit on thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel; but there is not a single person of a more private character,
that hath left house, or "houses", as read the Syriac and Persic versions;
or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake: that is, for Christ's sake, and for the sake of his Gospel, as the other evangelists have it; and which teaches us how to understand the kingdom of God here, and elsewhere.
There is no man, &c.--graciously acknowledging at once the completeness and the acceptableness of the surrender as a thing already made.
house, &c.--The specification is still more minute in Matthew and Mark, (Matthew 19:27; Mark 10:29) to take in every form of self-sacrifice.
for the kingdom of God's sake--in Mark (Mark 10:29), "for MY sake and the Gospel's." See on Luke 6:22.
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