Matthew 4:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Matthew 4:19 —

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Cross-References

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Mark 1:17-18
And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. …
John 12:26
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 9:59
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
John 1:43
The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-22)

When Christ began to preach, he began to gather disciples, who should now be the hearers, and hereafter the preachers, of his doctrine, who should now be witnesses of his miracles, and hereafter concerning them. Now, in these verses, we have an account of the first disciples that he called into fellowship with himself. And this was an instance, 1. Of effectual calling to Christ. In all his preachi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. And he saith unto them, Follow me--rather, as the same expression is rendered in Mark, “Come ye after Me” (Mr 1:17). and I will make you fishers of men--raising them from a lower to a higher fishing, as David was from a lower to a higher feeding (Psa 78:70-72).