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Jesus Calls His First Disciples
As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
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When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets.
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James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder”),
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Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.
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A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”
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“Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.
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Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
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Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
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He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.
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Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
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For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married.
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For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
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“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel
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will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children.
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“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
