Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
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Bible References
They left
Mark 10:29
"I tell you," said Jesus, "there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, on my account and on account of the Good News,
Matthew 4:21
Going further on, he saw two other men who were also brothers, James, Zebediah's son, and his brother John, in their boat with their father, mending their nets. Jesus called them,
Matthew 8:21
"Master," said another, who was a disciple, "let me first go and bury my father."
Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 14:26
"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.
2 Corinthians 5:16
For ourselves, then, from this time forward, we refuse to regard any one from the world's standpoint. Even if we once thought of Christ from the standpoint of the world, yet now we do so no longer.
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Matthew 4:22
And they at once left their boat and their father, and followed him.