Matthew Called to Follow Jesus

And as[a] Jesus was going away from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth and said to him, “Follow me!” And he stood up and[b] followed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:9 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 9:9 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“stood up”) has been translated as a finite verb

The Calling of Matthew(A)

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,”(B) he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

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