Mark 1:18

18 And immediately they left their nets [and]^[a] followed him.

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).

Mark 1:18 In-Context

16 And [as he] was passing by along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting [a net] into the sea (for they were fishermen).

17 And Jesus said to them, "{Follow} me and I will make you become fishers of people."

18 And immediately they left their nets [and] followed him.

19 And going on a little [farther], he saw James the [son] of Zebedee and his brother John, and they [were] in the boat mending the nets.

20 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men [and] went away after him.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("left") has been translated as a finite verb