161. Promises to All Who Have Left All for the Lord’s Sake. Mt. 19:27–30; Mk. 10:28–31; Lk. 18:28–30

Then Peter, answering, began to say to the Lord: “Behold, we have left everything and have followed you; what then shall we have?” The Lord Jesus said to them: “Truly, I say to you, you who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man will sit on his throne of glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

And everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for the sake of my name, will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life. Truly, I say to you: there is no one who has left such things for my sake and for the Gospel who will not receive now, in this present time, amid persecutions, a hundredfold in houses, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, children, and lands, and in the age to come eternal life.“

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”