Gospel story, the only thing the disciples of Jesus ever do right is leave their nets to follow him in the first place (see 1:16–20). After that they disappoint him at every turn. In the first half of the Gospel the disciples are remarkably obtuse, failing to grasp who Jesus is (4:35–41) or what he wants of them (8:14–21). Finally, about halfway through the Gospel, Peter does recognize that Jesus is the Messiah (8:29), but he seems to draw the wrong conclusions from this.