Mark 10
Verses 28-31
Then Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.
So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, “who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
To support what Jesus had taught in the preceding verses and to answer Peter’s statement Jesus tells the disciples believers will not be left as orphans in this world. The Father’s desire is to bless those who love Him. Now in this world and in the world to come. The man who ran up to Jesus did not really want to receive eternal life he wanted to earn it as he did with all of his riches. He wanted a trophy to display not a loving God who would care for him as a hen does for her chicks.
“But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
Jesus puts the finishing touches on His teaching here with the final sentence. Those who are willing to put others first and themselves last will be the ones who will be first or as He said in one of the other gospels, the greatest.