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27 “Look!” Peter replied. “We have left everything and followed you. So what will we get?”

28 Jesus told them, “I tell all of you[a] with certainty, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in the renewed creation, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, governing the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 In fact, everyone who has left his homes, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or fields because of my name will receive a hundred times as much[b] and will inherit eternal life.

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  1. Matthew 19:28 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.
  2. Matthew 19:29 Other mss. read many times as much

27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you!(A) What then will there be for us?”

28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne,(B) you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.(C) 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[a] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.(D)

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  1. Matthew 19:29 Some manuscripts do not have or wife.