Matthew 4:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Straight away they left the boat and their father and went with Jesus.

Cross References

Matthew 10:37

If you love your father or mother or even your sons and daughters more than me, you are not fit to be my disciples.

Matthew 4:21

Jesus walked on until he saw James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in a boat with their father, mending their nets. Jesus asked them to come with him too.

Matthew 4:23

Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in the Jewish meeting places and preaching the good news about God's kingdom. He also healed every kind of disease and sickness.

Mark 1:20

At once Jesus asked them to come with him. They left their father in the boat with the hired workers and went with him.

Luke 14:26

You cannot be my disciple, unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children, and your brothers and sisters. You cannot come with me unless you love me more than you love your own life.

Luke 14:33

So then, you cannot be my disciple unless you give away everything you own.

Luke 5:11

The men pulled their boats up on the shore. Then they left everything and went with Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:16

We are careful not to judge people by what they seem to be, though we once judged Christ in that way.