KJV King James Version
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
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Matthew 4:22
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.
WEB World English Bible
They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
ASV American Standard Version
And they straightway left the boat and their father, and followed him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they, immediately, having left the boat and their father, did follow him.
Surrounding context — Matthew 4
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left [their] nets, and followed him.
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.
22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and [from] Decapolis, and [from] Jerusalem, and [from] Judaea, and [from] beyond Jordan.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
οἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoδὲG1161 · dethenεὐθέωςG2112 · eutheōsimmediatelyἀφέντεςG863 · aphiēmito release: leaveτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoπλοῖονG4143 · ploionboatκαὶG2532 · kaiandτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπατέραG3962 · patērfatherαὐτῶνG846 · autosit/s/heἠκολούθησανG190 · akoloutheōto followαὐτῷ.¶G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Matthew 10:37He 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 14:26If 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.Deuteronomy 33:9-10Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.Luke 9:59-60And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.Mark 1:20And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.2 Corinthians 5:16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we [him] no more.Luke 14:33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
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