Mark 1:20

¹⁸ And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

¹⁹ And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

²¹ And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

²² And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.
KJV: And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
WEB: Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
ASV: And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
DARBY: and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.
BLB: And immediately He called them, and having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, they went away after Him.

ÅB: og straks kalte han dem, og de forlot sin far Sebedeus i båten med leiefolkene og fulgte ham.
OTB: Han kalte dem straks, og de forlot sin far Sebedeus i båten sammen med de leide mennene og fulgte ham.
B1930: og straks kalte han dem, og de forlot sin far Sebedeus i båten med leiefolkene og fulgte ham.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

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.
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Mark 10:29
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
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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.
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Matthew 8:21–22
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
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2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore 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.
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1 Kings 19:20
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
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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.
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Deuteronomy 33:9
Who 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.
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