Mark 10:28-31

10:28 Peter began to speak to him, “Look, ¹  we have left everything to follow you!” ²  10:29 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, ³  there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 10:30 who will not receive in this age ⁴  a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions ⁵  – and in the age to come, eternal life. ⁶  10:31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Luke 18:28-30

18:28 And Peter said, “Look, we have left everything we own ⁷  to follow you!” ⁸  18:29 Then ⁹  Jesus ¹⁰  said to them, “I tell you the truth, ¹¹  there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers ¹²  or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom 18:30 who will not receive many times more ¹³  in this age ¹⁴  – and in the age to come, eternal life.” ¹⁵ 

Acts 20:24

20:24 But I do not consider my life ¹⁶  worth anything ¹⁷  to myself, so that ¹⁸  I may finish my task ¹⁹  and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news ²⁰  of God’s grace.

Galatians 6:14

6:14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which ²¹  the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

[10:28]  ¹ sn Peter wants reassurance that the disciples’ response and sacrifice has been noticed.

[10:28]  ² tn Grk “We have left everything and followed you.” Koine Greek often used paratactic structure when hypotactic was implied.

[10:29]  ³ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[10:30]  ⁴ tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[10:30]  ⁵ tn Grk “with persecutions.” The “all” has been supplied to clarify that the prepositional phrase belongs not just to the “fields.”

[10:30]  ⁶ sn Note that Mark (see also Matt 19:29; Luke 10:25, 18:30) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[18:28]  ⁷ tn Or “left our homes,” “left our possessions”; Grk “left our own things.” The word ἴδιος (idios) can refer to one’s home (including the people and possessions in it) or to one’s property or possessions. Both options are mentioned in BDAG 467 s.v. 4.b. See also I. H. Marshall, Luke (NIGTC), 688; D. L. Bock, Luke (BECNT), 2:1488.

[18:28]  ⁸ tn Grk “We have left everything we own and followed you.” Koine Greek often used paratactic structure when hypotactic was implied.

[18:29]  ⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[18:29]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:29]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[18:29]  ¹² tn The term “brothers” could be understood as generic here, referring to either male or female siblings. However, it is noteworthy that in the parallel passages in both Matt 19:29 and Mark 10:29, “sisters” are explicitly mentioned in the Greek text.

[18:30]  ¹³ sn Jesus reassures his disciples with a promise that (1) much benefit in this life (many times more) and (2) eternal life in the age to come will be given.

[18:30]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[18:30]  ¹⁵ sn Note that Luke (see also Matt 19:29; Mark 10:30; Luke 10:25) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[20:24]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “soul.”

[20:24]  ¹⁷ tn Or “I do not consider my life worth a single word.” According to BDAG 599 s.v. λόγος 1.a.α, “In the textually uncertain pass. Ac 20:24 the text as it stands in N., οὐδενὸς λόγου (v.l. λόγον) ποιοῦμαι τὴν ψυχὴν τιμίαν, may well mean: I do not consider my life worth a single word (cp. λόγου ἄξιον [ἄξιος 1a] and our ‘worth mention’).”

[20:24]  ¹⁸ tn BDAG 1106 s.v. ὡς 9 describes this use as “a final particle, expressing intention/purpose, with a view to, in order to.”

[20:24]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “course.” See L&N 42.26, “(a figurative extension of meaning of δρόμος ‘race’) a task or function involving continuity, serious, effort, and possibly obligation – ‘task, mission’…Ac 20:24.” On this Pauline theme see also Phil 1:19-26; Col 1:24; 2 Tim 4:6-7.

[20:24]  ²⁰ tn Or “to the gospel.”

[6:14]  ²¹ tn Or perhaps, “through whom,” referring to the Lord Jesus Christ rather than the cross.