Matthew 4:22 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²² and immediately they left their boat and their father and went with Him.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² At once they left the boat and their father and joined Jesus as disciples [sided with His party and followed Him].

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And they straightway left the boat and their father, and followed him.

Common English Bible

²² immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And immediately, leaving their nets and their father behind, they followed him.

Matthew 4:22 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].

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to me [i.e., to be my disciple], and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers and sisters and, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Mark 1:20

Immediately He called them [to become His followers] and they left their father, Zebedee, and went along with Him.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So, from now on we will not regard any person by worldly standards, even though we [once] regarded Christ that way. But we will not regard Him [that way] anymore. [Note: Paul seems to be saying that before his conversion he viewed Christ on the basis of His family, His education, His position, etc., but since his conversion he does not view Him that way anymore].

Luke 14:33

So therefore, every one of you who does not say ‘goodbye’ to everything he owns cannot be my disciple.

Matthew 4:21

[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,

Matthew 4:23

Jesus went all over Galilee teaching in the [Jewish] synagogues and preaching the good news of the [coming, see verse 17] kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

Luke 5:11

And when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.