Marc 1:14-20

14 Or, après que Jean eut été mis en prison, Jésus s'en alla en Galilée, prêchant l'évangile du royaume de Dieu, et disant:

15 Le temps est accompli, et le royaume de Dieu approche. Repentez-vous et croyez à l'Évangile.

16 Or, comme il marchait le long de la mer de Galilée, il vit Simon et André son frère, qui jetaient leurs filets dans la mer; car ils étaient pêcheurs.

17 Alors Jésus leur dit: Suivez-moi, et je vous ferai pêcheurs d'hommes.

18 Et aussitôt, laissant leurs filets, ils le suivirent.

19 Et de là passant un peu plus avant, il vit dans une barque Jacques, fils de Zébédée, et Jean son frère, qui raccommodaient leurs filets.

20 Au même instant il les appela; et eux, laissant Zébédée leur père dans la barque avec les ouvriers, le suivirent.

Marc 1:14-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MARK

This is the title of the book, the subject of which is the Gospel; a joyful account of the ministry, miracles, actions, and sufferings of Christ: the writer of it was not one of the twelve apostles, but an evangelist; the same with John Mark, or John, whose surname was Mark: John was his Hebrew name, and Mark his Gentile name, Ac 12:12,25, and was Barnabas's sister's son, Col 4:10, his mother's name was Mary, Ac 12:12. The Apostle Peter calls him his son, 1Pe 5:13, if he is the same; and he is thought to have wrote his Gospel from him {a}, and by his order, and which was afterwards examined and approved by him {b} it is said to have been wrote originally in Latin, or in the Roman tongue: so say the Arabic and Persic versions at the beginning of it, and the Syriac version says the same at the end: but of this there is no evidence, any more, nor so much, as of Matthew's writing his Gospel in Hebrew. The old Latin copy of this, is a version from the Greek; it is most likely that it was originally written in Greek, as the rest of the New Testament.

{a} Papias apud Euseb. Hist. l. 3. c. 39. Tertull. adv. Marcion. l. 4. c. 5. {b} Hieron. Catalog. Script. Eccles. p. 91. sect. 18.