Mark 1:20
Good News Translation
As soon as Jesus saw them, he called them; they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went with Jesus.

New Revised Standard Version
Immediately he called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and followed him.

Contemporary English Version
At once Jesus asked them to come with him. They left their father in the boat with the hired workers and went with him.

New American Bible
Then he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with his hired men, they followed him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with his hired men, they followed him.

they left.

Mark 10:29 Jesus answering said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

Deuteronomy 33:9 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,

1 Kings 19:20 And he forthwith left the oxen, and run after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have done to thee.

Matthew 4:21,22 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them. . . .

Matthew 8:21,22 And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. . . .

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Context
The First Disciples
19And going on from thence a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who also were mending their nets in the ship: 20And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with his hired men, they followed him. 21And they entered into Capharnaum: and forthwith upon the sabbath days going into the synagogue, he taught them.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:21
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them.

Mark 1:19
And going on from thence a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who also were mending their nets in the ship:

Mark 1:21
And they entered into Capharnaum: and forthwith upon the sabbath days going into the synagogue, he taught them.

Luke 5:11
And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they followed him.

Mark 1:19
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