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).