Matthew 4:17–25

¹⁷From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, ‘Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.’

¹⁸And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea—for they were fishers— ¹⁹and he saith to them, ‘Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,’ ²⁰and they, immediately, having left the nets, did follow him. ²¹And having advanced thence, he saw other two brothers, James of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, refitting their nets, and he called them, ²²and they, immediately, having left the boat and their father, did follow him.

²³And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people, ²⁴and his fame went forth to all Syria, and they brought to him all having ailments, pressed with manifold sicknesses and pains, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them. ²⁵And there followed him many multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

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