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and straightway leaving their trawl-nets [a] they followed him.
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Mark 1:18 Meaning and Commentary
Mark 1:18
And straightway they forsook their nets
Which perhaps were their all; see ( Matthew 19:27 ) .
And followed him;
both in a corporeal and spiritual sense; (See Gill on Matthew 4:20).
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Mark 1:18 In-Context
16
And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, [Simon's] brother, casting out a net in the sea, for they were fishers.
17
And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men;
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and straightway leaving their trawl-nets they followed him.
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And going on thence a little, he saw James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, and these [were] in the ship repairing the trawl-nets;
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and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.
Footnotes 1
- [a] See Note, Matt. 4.20.
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