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Mark 10:31 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” "
Mark 10:31
Verse in Context
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29 Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
32 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
33 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
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Mark 10:1
"He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them."
Mark 10:2
"Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”"
Mark 10:3
"He answered, “What did Moses command you?”"
Mark 10:4
"They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”"
Mark 10:5
"But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment."
Mark 10:6
"But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female."
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