Luke 5:28

Easy-to-Read Version

Levi got up, left everything, and followed Jesus.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So, leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him.

King James Version (1611)
And he left all, rose vp, and followed him.

King James Version
And he left all, rose up, and followed him.

English Standard Version
And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.

New American Standard Bible
And he left everything behind, and got up and began following Him.

New Century Version
So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.

Amplified Bible
And he left everything behind and got up and began to follow Jesus [as His disciple].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he left everything behind, and rose up and began to follow Him.

Berean Standard Bible
and Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.

Contemporary English Version
Levi left everything and went with Jesus.

Complete Jewish Bible
He got up, left everything and followed him.

Darby Translation
And having left all, rising up, he followed him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he left all, rose vp, and folowed him.

George Lamsa Translation
So he left everything, and rose up, and went after him.

Good News Translation
Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.

Lexham English Bible
And leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him.

Literal Translation
And leaving all, rising up he followed Him.

American Standard Version
And he forsook all, and rose up and followed him.

Bible in Basic English
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.

Hebrew Names Version
He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

International Standard Version
So Levihe">[fn] left everything behind, got up, and followed him.

Etheridge Translation
and he left every thing, and arose, and went after him.

Murdock Translation
And he left every thing, and arose, and went after him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he left all, rose vp, & folowed him.

English Revised Version
And he forsook all, and rose up and followed him.

World English Bible
He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And leaving all, he rose up and followed him.

Weymouth's New Testament
He rose, left everything, and followed Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and whanne he hadde left alle thingis, he roos vp, and suede hym.

Update Bible Version
And he forsook all, and rose up and followed him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he left all, arose, and followed him.

New English Translation
And he got up and followed him, leaving everything behind.

New King James Version
So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.

New Living Translation
So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.

New Life Bible
Levi got up, left everything and followed Jesus.

New Revised Standard
And he got up, left everything, and followed him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, forsaking all, he arose, and was following him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.

Revised Standard Version
And he left everything, and rose and followed him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he leeft all roose vp and folowed him.

Young's Literal Translation
and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he left all, rose vp, & folowed him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
immediately he rose up, left all his affairs, and became his disciple.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Levi got up, left everything he had in the hut, and saddled up to ride with Jesus.

Contextual Overview

²⁷ After this Jesus went out and saw a tax collector sitting at his place for collecting taxes. His name was Levi. Jesus said to him, "Follow me!" ²⁸ Levi got up, left everything, and followed Jesus. ²⁹ Then Levi gave a big dinner at his house for Jesus. At the table there were many tax collectors and some other people too. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and those who taught the law for the Pharisees began to complain to the followers of Jesus, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and other sinners?" ³¹ Jesus answered them, "It is the sick people who need a doctor, not those who are healthy. ³² I have not come to ask good people to change. I have come to ask sinners to change the way they live." ³³ They said to Jesus, "John's followers often fast and pray, the same as the followers of the Pharisees. But your followers eat and drink all the time." ³⁴ Jesus said to them, "At a wedding you can't ask the friends of the bridegroom to be sad and fast while he is still with them. ³⁵ But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them. Then his friends will fast." ³⁶ Jesus told them this story: "No one takes cloth off a new coat to cover a hole in an old coat. That would ruin the new coat, and the cloth from the new coat would not be the same as the old cloth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 5:11, Luke 9:59-62, 1 Kings 19:19-21, Matthew 19:22-27

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:21 - gave unto Matthew 9:9 - named Matthew 19:27 - we have forsaken Luke 14:33 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he left all,.... His company, his business, and all the profits of it:

rose up; directly; such power went along with the words of Christ, that he could not withstand it:

and followed him; not only in a literal, but in a spiritual sense, and became a disciple of his.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 9:9-13.

Luke 5:29

Made him a great feast - This circumstance “Matthew,” or “Levi” as he is here called, has omitted in his own gospel. This fact shows how little inclined the evangelists are to say anything in favor of themselves or to praise themselves. True religion does not seek to commend itself, or to speak of what it does, even when it is done for the Son of God. It seeks retirement; it delights rather in the consciousness of doing well than in its being known; and it leaves its good deeds to be spoken of, if spoken of at all, by others. This is agreeable to the direction of Solomon Proverbs 27:2; “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.” This feast was made expressly for our Lord, and was attended by many publicans, probably people of wicked character; and it is not improbable that Matthew got them together for the purpose of bringing them into contact with our Lord to do them good. Our Saviour did not refuse to go, and to go, too, at the risk of being accused of being a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners, Matthew 11:19. But his motives were pure. In the thing itself there was no harm. It afforded an opportunity of doing good, and we have no reason to doubt that the opportunity was improved by the Lord Jesus. Happy would it be if all the “great feasts” that are made were made in honor of our Lord; happy if he would be a welcome guest there; and happy if ministers and pious people who attend them demeaned themselves as the Lord Jesus did, and they were always made the means of advancing his kingdom. But, alas! there are few places where our Lord would be “so unwelcome” as at great feasts, and few places that serve so much to render the mind gross, dissipated, and irreligious.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. And he left all — καταλιπων - completely abandoning his office, and every thing connected with it. He who wishes to preach the Gospel, like the disciples of Christ, must have no earthly entanglement. If he have, his whole labour will be marred by it. The concerns of his own soul, and those of the multitudes to whom he preaches, are sufficient to engross all his attention, and to employ all his powers.