Mark 10:28 Commentary and Bible Study

This next section is about ambition in believers. We are confronted here by a passage of Scripture which brings to us the unexpected; in fact, a considerable shock when we find how the old nature can rise up, and command, and dominate the believer in Christ. ‘Then Peter began to say, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.’ And Matthew adds, ‘What shall we have therefore?’ Once again, the disciples were inclined to look for some earthly reward for their following of Christ. We have left all. Will there be no earthly reward for doing that? If riches are such an enemy of spiritual things and the kingdom of God, what will we get for giving them up? We thought if we left all, one day you would enter into your glory, you would make your political earthly rule and we would be elevated, it would be all worthwhile.