Mark 1:20

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

¹⁹ And when He going farther from there a little, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending their nets. ²⁰ And immediately He called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and went after Him. ²¹ And they went into Capernaum. And immediately on the sabbath day He entered into the synagogue and taught.

And Immediately

Come After Me

Jesus

Mark

Zabdi

Zebedee

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; and he has not acknowledged his brothers, nor knew his own son, for they have observed Your Word and kept Your covenant.

1 Kings 19:20

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

Matthew 4:21-22

And going on from there, he saw another two brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a 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 more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Mark 10:29

And Jesus answered and said, Truly I say to you, There is no man that has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel's sake,

Luke 14:26

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.