¹⁸Now as he^* was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, throwing a casting net into the sea (for they were fishermen). ¹⁹And he said to them, “Follow me^k and I will make you fishers of people.” ²⁰And immediately they left their nets and^* followed him. ²¹And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. ²²And immediately they left the boat and their father and^* followed him.

Teaching, Preaching, and Healing throughout Galilee

²³And he went around through all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. ²⁴And a report about him went out throughout^l Syria, and they brought to him all those who were sick^m with various diseases and afflicted by torments, demon-possessedⁿ and epileptics and paralytics, and he healed them. ²⁵And large crowds followed him from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from the other side of the Jordan.

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Matthew 4:19: And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Footnotes

*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was walking”) which is understood as temporal
kLiterally “come behind me”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“left”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“left”) has been translated as a finite verb
lLiterally “in the whole of”
mLiterally “having badly”
nSome manuscripts have “and demon-possessed”