Matthew 4:18-22

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Jesus Calls the First Disciples

¹⁸^(A)While walking by ^(B)the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you ^(C)fishers of men.”^[a] ²⁰Immediately they left their nets and followed him. ²¹And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. ²²Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

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Footnotes

Matthew 4:19 The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women

Mark 2:13-14

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Jesus Calls Levi

¹³He went out again beside the sea, and ^(A)all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. ¹⁴^(B)And as he passed by, he saw ^(C)Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

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