Reward of Self-Sacrifice
Mark 10:28-31
Then Peter began to say to him, See, we have left all, and have followed you.…


Jesus, knowing out of the depth of His own experience how great is the joy of self-sacrifice, how transcendently superior to anything else, assures them that they will have their reward both here and hereafter. Here, in a vastly intensified appreciation of earthly enjoyments, finding new homes and new friends wherever they go, and seeing new beauty in the commonest things — in earth and air, and sky and sea. It was true they would meet with persecutions, but these would not mar their happiness, for by a mysterious law, understood by those alone who experienced them, they were accompanied by a joy unspeakable and full of glory. And hereafter they would receive the fullest compensation, an eternal weight of glory in the life everlasting.

(H. M. Luckock, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

WEB: Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."




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