Matthew 4:22

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

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, ²² And they at once left their boat and their father, and followed him. ²³ And Jesus went all through Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people;

And Immediately

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 1:20

Jesus at once called them, and they left their father Zebediah in the boat with the crew, and went after him.

Luke 9:59-60

To another man Jesus said: "Follow me." "Let me first go and bury my father," said the man.

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.

Luke 14:33

And so with every one of you who does not bid farewell to all he has--he cannot be a 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.