But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mark shows us what earnest seeking looks like: the man ran, knelt, and spoke weightily about eternal life, no shame, no delay, no private conference in darkness. He laid aside his ruler's dignity to learn from Christ, and his haste itself proved he meant business with his soul.
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Commenting on Mark 10:17-31
Saying, behold we go up to Jerusalem,.... They were now upon the road thither. And the son of man; meaning himself, shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the Scribes; by the determinate counsel, and foreknowledge of God, and by the means of a treacherous disciple of his, Judas.
Verse 30. An hundredfold. A hundred times as much. In this time. In this life. In the time that he forsakes all. Houses, etc. This cannot be taken literally, as promising a hundred times as many mothers, sisters, etc. It means, evidently, that the loss shall be a hundred times compensated or made up; or that, in the possession of religion, we have a hundred...