Mark 1:20

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

¹⁹ when he had gone a little further, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the bark mending their nets. whereupon he called them: ²⁰ and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the people he had hired, and went after him. ²¹ As soon as they were come to Capernaum, he entred into the synagogue, and it being the sabbath, instructed them.

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Zebedee

Matthew 4:21-22

Going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in a bark with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and Jesus having called them,

Matthew 8:21-22

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

Matthew 10:37

he that loveth father or mother more than me, is unworthy of me: he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is unworthy of me.

Mark 10:29

Jesus answered him, I declare unto you, there is not a man who has forsaken his house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, out of love to me and to the gospel,

Luke 14:26

and said, he that can't abandon his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, nay, even his own life, cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Wherefore, henceforth I have no regard to any man for his external appearance: for tho' I formerly look'd for worldly grandeur in the Messiah, yet now I see things in another light.