The First Disciples

5 One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee,^[a] great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God.

The First Disciples

¹⁶ One day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon^[a] and his brother Andrew throwing a net into the water, for they fished for a living. ¹⁷ Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!” ¹⁸ And they left their nets at once and followed him.

¹⁹ A little farther up the shore Jesus saw Zebedee’s sons, James and John, in a boat repairing their nets. ²⁰ He called them at once, and they also followed him, leaving their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired men.

The First Disciples

¹⁸ One day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew—throwing a net into the water, for they fished for a living. 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.

³⁴ After they had crossed the lake, they landed at Gennesaret.

⁹ Jesus instructed his disciples to have a boat ready so the crowd would not crush him.

¹¹ then down to Riblah on the east side of Ain. From there the boundary will run down along the eastern edge of the Sea of Galilee,^[a]

⁵³ After they had crossed the lake, they landed at Gennesaret. They brought the boat to shore

¹² And from the time John the Baptist began preaching until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing,^[a] and violent people are attacking it.

³ Sihon also controlled the Jordan Valley and regions to the east—from as far north as the Sea of Galilee to as far south as the Dead Sea,^[a] including the road to Beth-jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.

¹⁷ They also received the Jordan Valley, all the way from the Sea of Galilee down to the Dead Sea,^[a] with the Jordan River serving as the western boundary. To the east were the slopes of Pisgah.