¹⁸As he walked by 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 fishers.^* ¹⁹And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people.” ²⁰Immediately they left their nets and followed him.^* ²¹As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. ²²Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Jesus Ministers to Crowds of People

²³Jesus^e went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news^f of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.^* ²⁴So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, people possessed by demons or having epilepsy or afflicted with paralysis, and he cured them.^* ²⁵And great crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond 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

dOr is at hand
eGk He
fGk gospel

Cross references

*Mt 3:2; 10:7
*Jn 1:35–42
*Lk 18:28
*Mt 9:35; 13:54; Mk 1:21, 34, 39; Lk 4:15, 44
*Mt 8:6, 16, 28, 33; 9:2, 6; 17:15; Mk 1:32; Lk 2:2; 8:36
*Mk 3:7, 8; Lk 6:17