²⁸ Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.”

⁷ I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.

¹¹ And as soon as they landed, they left everything and followed Jesus.

²⁸ Then Peter began to speak up. “We’ve given up everything to follow you,” he said.

²⁷ Then Peter said to him, “We’ve given up everything to follow you. What will we get?”

Jesus Calls Matthew

⁹ As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.

¹⁹ Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!” ²⁰ And they left their nets at once and followed him.

²¹ A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, repairing their nets. And he called them to come, too. ²² They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind.