Matthew 4:18-25 ▼

18 While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, because they were fishermen.

19 |Follow me,| he told them, |and I will make you fishers of people!|

20 So at once they left their nets and followed him.

21 Going on from there he saw two other brothers—James, son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee repairing their nets. When he called them,

22 they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.

23 Then he went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

24 His fame spread throughout Syria, and people brought to him everyone who was sick—those afflicted with various diseases and pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralyzed—and he healed them.

25 Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from across the Jordan followed him.