Marco 1:14-20

14 Dopo che Giovanni fu messo in prigione, Gesù si recò in Galilea, predicando l’evangelo di Dio e dicendo:

15 Il tempo è compiuto e il regno di Dio è vicino; ravvedetevi e credete all’evangelo.

16 Or passando lungo il mar della Galilea, egli vide Simone e Andrea, il fratello di Simone, che gettavano la rete in mare, perché erano pescatori. E Gesù disse loro:

17 Seguitemi, ed io farò di voi dei pescatori d’uomini.

18 Ed essi, lasciate subito le reti, lo seguirono.

19 Poi, spintosi un po’ più oltre, vide Giacomo di Zebedeo e Giovanni suo fratello, che anch’essi in barca rassettavano le reti;

20 e subito li chiamò; ed essi, lasciato Zebedeo loro padre nella barca con gli operai, se n’andarono dietro a lui.

Marco 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.