14—23.
*dpudiBXnotpov eis τὴν θάλασσαν: ἦσαν γὰρ 7 ἁλιεῖς.ϊ λέγει αὐτοῖς, ''" Δεῦτε ὀπίσω µου, καὶ ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων. 20. Οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὰ Ὀίκτυα ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ. προβὰς ἐκεῖθεν, εἶδεν ἄλλους δύο ἀδελφούς, ᾿Ιάκωβον τὸν τοῦ Ζεβε- δαίου καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ μετὰ Ζεβεδαίου
a a αν ᾱ μα i ΛΑ c 2A Sy A aha του πατρος αυτων, καταρτίζοντας τα δίκτυα αυτων" και ἐκάλεσεν
αὐτούς. ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ. ‘
23. Καὶ “περιῆγεν ὅλην τὴν Γαλιλαίαν 6 Ιησοῦς,2 διδάσκων ἐν ταῖς pny ην τη η
22. at δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὸ πλοῖον καὶ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν
93
IQ. καὶ χ here only
aa, PING EAs; verb in Mk. i. 16 in Sept.
y Mk. 1. 16 17. Lk.v.2
z Ch. xi. 28; XXV. 34.
a with ev here only (truetext); with acc of place ix. 35; XXili, 15. Mk. vi. 6.
21. Kat
συναγωγαῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ κηρύσσων τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας, καὶ
1 ΝΟ have αλεεις, B a eters. 3 NBC have εν ολη τη Γαλιλαια,
ministry. He knows nothing of an earlier activity.
Vv. 18-22. Call of four disciples. The preceding very general statement is followed by a more specific narrative relating to a very important department of Christ’s work, the gathering of dis- ciples. Disciples are referred to in the Sermon on the Mount (v. 1), therefore it is meet that it be shown how Jesus came by them. Here we have simply a sample, a hint at a process always going on, and which had probably advanced a considerable way before the sermon was ἀε]ινετεά. --- περιπατῶν δὲ: δὲ simply introduces a new topic, the time is inde- finite. One day when Jesus was walk- ing along the seashore He saw two men, brothers, names given, by occupation fishers, the main industry of the locality, that tropical sea (800 feet below level of Mediterranean) abounding in fish. He saw them, may have seen them before, and they Him, and thought them likely men, and He said to them, ver. ΙΟ: Δεῦτε . . . ἀνθρώπων. From the most critical point of view a genuine saying of Jesus; the first distinctively individual word of the Galilean ministry as recorded by Matthew and Mark. Full οι significance as a self- revelation of the speaker. Authoritative yet genial, indicating a poetic idealistic temperament and a tendency to figurative speech; betraying the rudiments of a plan for winning men by select men. Δεῦτε plural form of δεῦρο = δεῦρ᾽ ire, δεῦρο being an adverb of place with the force of command, a verb of command- ing being understood: here! after me; imperial yet kindly, used again in Matt. ri. 28 with reference to the labouring and heavy-laden. δεῦτε and ἁλιεῖς (= sea-
The acc. (T. R. as in D, etc.) is the more usual construction, hence preferred by ancient revisers.
B omits ο Ίησους.
people) are samples of old poetic words re- vived and introduced into prose by later Greek writers.—Ver. 20. The effect was immediate : εὐθέως ἀφέντες. This seems surprising, and we naturally postulate previous knowledge in explanation. But all indications point to the uniquely impressive personality of Jesus. John felt it; the audience in the synagogue of Capernaum felt it on the first appearance of Jesus there (Mk. i. 27); the four fisher- men felt it.—8ixrva: ἀμφίβληστρον in ver. 18. In xiii. 47 occurs a third word for a net, σαγήνη ; δίκτυον (from δικεῖν, to throw) is the general name; ἀμφί- βληστρον (ἀμφιβάλλω), anything cast around, ¢.g.,a garment, more specifically a net thrown with the hand; σαγήνη, a sweep-net carried out in a boat, then drawn in from the land (vide Trench, Synonyms of N. T., § 64).—Ver. 21. ἄλλους 840, another pair of brothers, James and John, sons of Zebedee, the four together an important instalment of the twelve. The first pair were casting their nets, the second were mending them, (καταρτίζοντες), with their father. —Ver. 22. οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες. They too followed immediately, leaving nets, ship, and father (vide Mk. i. 20) behind.