Mark 1:20

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

¹⁹ And having advanced a little from there he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. ²⁰ And straightaway he called them. And having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the workmen, they went behind him. ²¹ And they entered into Capernaum, and straightaway on the Sabbath day, having entered into the synagogue, he taught.

And Immediately

Come After Me

Jesus

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Zabdi

Zebedee

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed thy word, and keep thy covenant.

1 Kings 19:20

And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again, for what have I done to thee?

Matthew 4:21-22

And having gone on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. And he called them.

Matthew 8:21-22

And another of his disciples said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.

Matthew 10:37

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Mark 10:29

And having answered, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of me, and because of the good-news,

Luke 14:26

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.