Luke 18:28
26 Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
27 But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
30 will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”
- KJV
- Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
- WEB
- Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
- ASV
- And Peter said, Lo, we have left our own, and followed thee.
- DARBY
- And Peter said, Behold, *we* have left all things and have followed thee.
- BLB
- And Peter said, “Behold, we, having left [our] own, followed You.”
- ÅB
- Og Peter sa: Se, vi har forlatt alt vårt og fulgt deg.
- OTB
- Peter sa til Ham: “Vi har forlatt alt vi hadde for å følge Deg!”
- B1930
- Og Peter sa: Se, vi har forlatt alt vårt og fulgt dig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 3:7
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
Read in contextMark 10:28
Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”
Read in contextLuke 5:11
And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.
Read in contextMatthew 19:27
“Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”
Read in contextMatthew 4:19–22
“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
Read in contextMatthew 9:9
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
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