What Does Mark 10:30 Mean in the King James?
But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The hundredfold arrives in the present with persecution still inside it, while the future is named as life of the coming age.
THE MEANING
You receive a multiplied life of home, kinship, and provision now, even while persecution remains real. The coming age holds life beyond the limits of this time.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that persecution means the promise has failed: Jesus places pursuit and multiplied provision inside the same present promise.
THE ROOT
διωγμῶν
diōgmōn
GROWS FROM
διώκω
diōkō
To pursue or chase after; in a hostile setting, to persecute.
The Greek noun translated “persecutions” comes from the verb for pursuing: the promised hundredfold can arrive while someone is still being actively targeted. The verse puts persecution and abundance inside the same present promise.
ALSO GROWS
diōkō: To pursue or persecute.
διώκω
The plural noun in Mark names what happens when the pursuit turns against you: people are chased and targeted.
diōktēs: A pursuer or persecutor.
διώκτης
This names the agent of the same pursuit, showing persecution as active targeting rather than a vague difficult season.
αἰῶνι
aiōni aiōnion
GROWS FROM
αἰών
aiōn
An age, era, or order of time.
“world to come; eternal” in this verse is aiōni aiōnion. The text contrasts “now in this time” with “in the coming age,” and its word for “eternal” grows from the Greek word for “age.” The phrase opens as life of the coming age, holding the future promise in its own time-language.
ALSO GROWS
aiōn: An age or era.
αἰών
This is the word translated “world” in “the world to come,” framing the promise as an age that is still coming.
aiōnios: Pertaining to an age; by context, age-lasting or eternal.
αἰώνιος
This adjective describes the life promised in the coming age, linking “eternal life” to the age-word itself.
THE PATTERN
Persecution can accompany a life held by provision and deliverance without canceling either.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;THE THREAD
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Mark’s “persecutions” and Romans’ “persecution” are forms of the same Greek pursuit-word. Mark places that pursuit inside the hundredfold present; Romans sets it beside the question of whether anything can separate you from Christ’s love, making persecution a pressure on belonging rather than proof of its absence.
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