Matthew 4:18 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁸ As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ As He was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He noticed two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, throwing a dragnet into the sea, for they were fishermen.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ As Jesus walked alongside the Galilee Sea, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, throwing fishing nets into the sea, because they were fishermen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And Jesus, walking near the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishers).

Matthew 4:18 Cross References

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Exodus 3:10

Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Ezekiel 47:10

Fishermen will stand beside the sea; from En-gedi to En-eglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Numbers 34:11

and the boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the boundary shall go down, and reach to the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth on the east;

Matthew 10:2

The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Matthew 15:29

And Jesus went on from there and passed along the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain, and sat down there.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 4:19

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Mark 7:31

Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decapolis.

Luke 6:14

Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,

John 21:1

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberi-as; and he revealed himself in this way.

John 6:1

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberi-as.

John 6:8

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

Deuteronomy 3:17

the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the boundary, from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.