Matthew 4:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

Matthew 4:22 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Mark 1:20
And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Luke 9:59-60
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. …
Deuteronomy 33:9-10
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. …
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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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. 22)

22. And they immediately left the ship and their father--Mark adds an important clause: “They left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants” (Mr 1:20); showing that the family were in easy circumstances. and followed him--Two harmonistic questions here arise: First, Was this the same calling as that recorded in Joh 1:35-42? Clearly not. For, (1) That call was given while Jesus was…