Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
And they at once left their boat and their father, and followed him.
New American Standard Bible
Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
King James Version
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
Holman Bible
Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.
International Standard Version
they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
A Conservative Version
And straightaway having left the boat and their father, they followed him.
American Standard Version
And they straightway left the boat and their father, and followed him.
Amplified
Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him [becoming His disciples, believing and trusting in Him and following His example].
An Understandable Version
and immediately they left their boat and their father and went with Him.
Anderson New Testament
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
Bible in Basic English
And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.
Common New Testament
and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.
Daniel Mace New Testament
they immediately left the bark with their father, and followed him.
Darby Translation
and they, having left the ship and their father, immediately followed him.
Godbey New Testament
And immediately having left the ship and their father, they followed Him.
Goodspeed New Testament
And they immediately left the boat and their father, and went with him.
John Wesley New Testament
And leaving the vessel and their father, they immediately followed him.
Julia Smith Translation
And they having instantly let go the ship and their father,. followed him.
King James 2000
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And immediately they left the boat and their father [and] followed him.
Modern King James verseion
and they immediately left the boat and their father and followed Him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they, without tarrying, left the ship and their father and followed him.
Moffatt New Testament
and they left the boat and their father at once, and went after him.
Montgomery New Testament
They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
NET Bible
They immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
New Heart English Bible
And they immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
Noyes New Testament
And they immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
Sawyer New Testament
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
The Emphasized Bible
And, they, straightway, leaving the boat and their father, followed him.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Then they instantly quitting the ship and their father, followed him.
Webster
And they immediately left the boat, and their father, and followed him.
Weymouth New Testament
And they at once left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
Williams New Testament
And at once they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
World English Bible
They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
Worrell New Testament
and they, having immediately left the boat and their father, followed Him.
Worsley New Testament
and He called them also; and they immediately left the ship, and their father, and followed Him.
Youngs Literal Translation
and they, immediately, having left the boat and their father, did follow him.
Themes
Call » To special religious duty » Apostles
Faith » Instances of faith in Christ » Peter
Faith » Instances of faith in Christ » Andrew
Faith » Instances of faith in Christ » James and john
Galilee » Sea (lake) of galilee » Jesus calls disciples on the shore of
James » An apostle. Son of zebedee and salome » Called to be an apostle
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 4:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
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;
Phrases
Cross References
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.