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title: Mark 10:28
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/mark-10-28/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/mark-10-28.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Mark 10:28
testament: NT
section: Gospels
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Mark 10:28

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (1984 edition): "Peter started to say to him: 'Look! We have left all things and followed you.'"
- NWT (2013 revision): "Peter began to say to him: 'Look! We have left all things and followed you.'"

## JW Usage

JWs read Mark 10:28 as Peter's earnest acknowledgement of the cost the apostles bore — leaving fishing nets, tax tables, and family routines to follow Jesus. The verse is sometimes used pastorally to encourage Witnesses who have made similar sacrifices for the ministry: pioneering, declining secular career advancement, or moving to congregations with greater need.

## Protestant Usage

Mark 10:28 records Peter naming the cost out loud — "Look! We have left all things and followed you." Peter's words come right after the rich young ruler walks away unwilling to lose his earthly inheritance (Mark 10:17-22). Jesus' response in the next verse (10:29-30) sets the reimbursement: a hundredfold now in this period of time and everlasting life in the coming system. The structure of the passage matters for the doorstep conversation: Peter is the archetype of the disciple who has lost family, livelihood, and community for Christ — and Christ does not lecture him for the question; Christ promises him reimbursement. On the doorstep, especially with a Witness wavering about leaving or with an ex-JW grieving the loss of family, this verse names the cost honestly and locates it within a long apostolic tradition. Peter has been there. Christ knew Peter would ask. The promise that follows is not a vague spiritual consolation; it is concrete, present, and eternal.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Christ's Promise to Those Their Family Cuts Off](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/matthew19-leave-father-mother.md) — Matthew 19:29 / Mark 8:36 / Mark 10:29-30 [Practice]