NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 17

Mark 1:17

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Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”

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Mark 1:17 in context

Mark 1:14–20

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Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

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and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

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Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

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Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”

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Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.

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Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

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Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

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