Mark 10:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

There is no man that hath left, &c.— Our Lord is not here speaking of such as have actually separated themselves from the persons, and parted with the possessions here mentioned; for if that had been his meaning, he would not have said, that wives and children were to be forsaken, having himself, on a former occasion, expresslyprohibited divorce on any account, except fornication. He is speaking of those, who, for his sake and the Gospel's, have renounced the pleasures and satisfaction which relations and possessions usually afford. See Luke 14:33. Our Lord promises to all such great rewards, He shall receive, &c. Mark 10:30. "He who hath forsaken all for my sake, shall be no loser in the issue; because God, who designs to admit him into heaven, will give him the comforts necessary to support him in his journeythither, and will raise him up friends, who shall be as serviceable to him as the nearest kindred whom he has forsaken. By the special benignity of Providence he shall have every thing valuable, which relations or possessions can minister to him: and, besides, shall have persecutions, whose heat shall nourish virtues in him of such excellent efficacy, as to yield him, even in this present world, joys a hundred times better than all earthly pleasures: but, above all, in the world to come, he shall have everlasting life. His afflictions contributing to the growth of his graces, which are the wings of his soul, he shall in due time be raised on them even up to heaven, leaving all sorrows behind him, and shall fly swiftly into the bosom of God, the fountain of life and joy, where he shall have full amends made him for all the evils that he may have undergone on account of Christ and his Gospel." See on Matthew 19:30.

Mark 10:29

29 And Jesus answered and said,Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,