In the fifth chapter of Luke, 5 people left everything they had to follow Jesus. The first 4 were fishermen (Peter, Andrew, James and John). The fifth was Matthew the tax collector.
I would like to note 2 things here:
1. There were no land owners who followed Jesus (none that we know of). Owning land made it harder to abandon all to follow someone. As far as I know, Barnabus was the only person in the Bible to sell everything to follow Jesus. Ananias and Saphira did as well but held back some of the money. Their hope was to become part of the inner circle of Christian leaders and for that they devised a scheme to sell their land and give a part of it to the Apostles and so win their honor as Barnabus did. Unfortuneatley, their scheme backfired.
2. There were 2 different types of rich people in the NT. Those who made honest money earned from a noble career and those who had collected wealth from socially hated work. The tax-collectors came from the second of these - their work was hated by the people.
Jesus called several to give up and follow, but out of the two types of rich people, only the socially hated rich (ie: the tax-collectors) could easily give up all. Those who could not give up their money for the kingdom of God were the rich young ruler and the religious leaders. These wealthy people got their money in socially acceptable ways.
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