Matthew 4:22
Good News Translation
and at once they left the boat and their father, and went with him.

New Revised Standard Version
Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.

Contemporary English Version
At once they left the boat and their father and went with Jesus.

New American Bible
and immediately they left their boat and their father and followed him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him.

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Deuteronomy 33:9,10 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant, . . .

Mark 1:20 And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with his hired men, they followed him.

Luke 9:59,60 But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go and to bury my father. . . .

Luke 14:26,33 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Context
The First Disciples
21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them. 22And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him. 23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:21
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them.

Matthew 4:23
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people.

Luke 5:11
And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they followed him.

Matthew 4:21
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