Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
They immediately left their nets and went with Him.
New American Standard Bible
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.
King James Version
And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
Holman Bible
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.
International Standard Version
So at once they left their nets and followed him.
A Conservative Version
And straightaway having left the nets, they followed him.
American Standard Version
And they straightway left the nets, and followed him.
Amplified
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him [becoming His disciples, believing and trusting in Him and following His example].
Anderson New Testament
And they immediately left their nets and followed him.
Bible in Basic English
And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.
Common New Testament
Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
Daniel Mace New Testament
so they immediately left their nets, and followed him.
Darby Translation
And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately followed him.
Godbey New Testament
And immediately, having left their nets, they followed Him.
Goodspeed New Testament
They immediately dropped their nets and went with him.
John Wesley New Testament
And straitway leaving the nets they followed him.
Julia Smith Translation
And they instantly having let go their nets, followed him.
King James 2000
And they immediately left their nets, and followed him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And immediately they left their nets [and] followed him.
Modern King James verseion
And they immediately left their nets and followed him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they straightaway left their nets, and followed him.
Moffatt New Testament
And they dropped their nets at once and followed him.
Montgomery New Testament
And they dropped their nets at once, and followed him.
NET Bible
They left their nets immediately and followed him.
New Heart English Bible
And they immediately left their nets and followed him.
Noyes New Testament
And they immediately left their nets, and followed him.
Sawyer New Testament
And they left their nets, immediately, and followed him.
The Emphasized Bible
And, they, straightway, leaving the nets, followed him.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Then immediately quitting their nets they followed him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
The two men left their nets at once and followed him.
Webster
And they immediately left their nets, and followed him.
Weymouth New Testament
So they immediately left their nets and followed Him. As He went further on,
Williams New Testament
And at once they left the nets and followed Him.
World English Bible
They immediately left their nets and followed him.
Worrell New Testament
And, immediately leaving their nets, they followed Him.
Worsley New Testament
and they immediately left their nets, and followed Him.
Youngs Literal Translation
and they, immediately, having left the nets, did follow him.
Themes
Andrew » A personal worker » Responded immediately when called
Call » To special religious duty » Apostles
Christ » Filial » Obedience to
Faith » Instances of faith in Christ » Peter
Faith » Instances of faith in Christ » Andrew
Galilee » Sea (lake) of galilee » Jesus calls disciples on the shore of
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 4:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus Calls His First Disciples
19 And He said to them, "Come with me, and I will make you fishermen for people." 20 They immediately left their nets and went with Him. 21 [As] Jesus went from there He saw two [other] brothers, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in the boat with their father Zebedee, repairing their nets. He called them,
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 10:37
The person who loves his father and mother more than me does not deserve me [i.e., to be my disciple]. And the person who loves his son or daughter more than me does not deserve me [i.e., to be my disciple].
Matthew 19:27
Peter then answered Him, "Look, we have left everything [i.e., homes, jobs, family, etc.], to follow you. What will we get for it?"
Mark 10:28-31
Peter began saying to Him, "Look, we have left everything [i.e., homes, jobs, family, etc.] to follow you."
Luke 18:28-30
Then Peter said, "Look, we have left our homes to follow you."
Galatians 1:16
[And when I was called], God revealed His Son to me so that I could preach [about] Him to the Gentiles. [When this happened] I immediately avoided discussing the matter with anyone.