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This article focuses on the renouncement of possessions in Matthew 19:16–30 in terms of three  related questions. Firstly, it asks if the renouncement of possessions was, according to Matthew, a general requirement for following Jesus or for membership of the Matthean community. Secondly, it investigates if this requirement did not lead to a distinction within the Matthean community between those who adhered to a stricter ethic of Jesus and those who did not (i.e. between religious virtuosi and non-virtuosi)? Finally it enquiries as to what would have compelled followers of Jesus or members of the latter Matthean community to comply with it? The article concludes that at least some of the followers of Jesus are depicted by Matthew as having renounced their possessions as a sign of their unconditional commitment to him. The Matthean community could thus have been a two-tiered community comprised of virtuosi  who had renounced all their possessions, as was demanded of the rich young man, and those  who had not. The renouncement of their possessions could have been part of their initiation  into the Matthean community and have been motivated by the promise of an incomparable eschatological reward. It further appears that while not all who were considered to be  followers of Jesus had surrendered their possessions, all would share in God’s eschatological  reward if they provided hospitality to those who did

The renouncement of possessions according to Matthew 19:16–30