Mark 10:28

28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”

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Mark 10:28 in Other Translations

KJV

28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

ESV

28 Peter began to say to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you."

NLT

28 Then Peter began to speak up. “We’ve given up everything to follow you,” he said.

MSG

28 Peter tried another angle: "We left everything and followed you."

CSB

28 Peter began to tell Him, "Look, we have left everything and followed You."

Mark 10:28 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:28

Then Peter began to say unto him
only observing that Christ promised treasure in heaven to the young man, provided he sold all that he had, and gave it to the poor; but being, in some measure, freed from that surprise and astonishment, which had seized him, and his fellow disciples, at the representation of the difficulty of a rich man's entering into the kingdom of God, by the last words; and taking heart from thence, began to take notice of the following case, as an instance and illustration of what Christ had said; for that same power, which had caused them to quit all their worldly substance for Christ, though it was but small, could also work a like effect upon the heart of a man ever so rich:

lo! we have left all, and have followed thee:
in Matthew it is added, "what shall we have therefore?" (See Gill on Matthew 19:27).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Mark 10:28 In-Context

26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, “Who then can be saved?”

27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”

28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”

29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel

30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.