Mark 1:18

Simplified Cowboy Version

They immediately coiled their ropes up and loped off after him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Immediately they left their nets and followed him.

King James Version (1611)
And straightway they forsooke their nets, and followed him.

King James Version
And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

English Standard Version
And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

New American Standard Bible
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

New Century Version
So Simon and Andrew immediately left their nets and followed him.

Amplified Bible
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him [becoming His disciples, believing and trusting in Him and following His example].

Legacy Standard Bible
And immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

Berean Standard Bible
And at once they left their nets and followed Him.

Contemporary English Version
Right then the two brothers dropped their nets and went with him.

Complete Jewish Bible
At once they left their nets and followed him.

Darby Translation
and straightway leaving their trawl-nets they followed him.

Easy-to-Read Version
So they immediately left their nets and followed Jesus.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And straightway they forsooke their nets, and folowed him.

George Lamsa Translation
And straightway they left their nets, and went after him.

Good News Translation
At once they left their nets and went with him.

Lexham English Bible
And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

Literal Translation
And leaving their nets, they immediately followed Him.

American Standard Version
And straightway they left the nets, and followed him.

Bible in Basic English
And they went straight from their nets, and came after him.

Hebrew Names Version
Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.

International Standard Version
So immediately they left their nets and followed him.Matthew 19:27; Luke 5:11;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And at once they forsook their nets, and went after him.

Murdock Translation
And immediately they left their nets, and went after him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And strayghtway they forsoke their nettes, and folowed hym.

English Revised Version
And straightway they left the nets, and followed him.

World English Bible
Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And straightway leaving their nets, they followed him. And having gone thence a little farther,

Weymouth's New Testament
At once they left their nets and followed Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And anoon thei leften the nettis, and sueden hym.

Update Bible Version
And immediately they left the nets, and followed him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And immediately they forsook their nets, and followed him.

New English Translation
They left their nets immediately and followed him.

New King James Version
They immediately left their nets and followed Him.

New Living Translation
And they left their nets at once and followed him.

New Life Bible
At once they left their nets and followed Him.

New Revised Standard
And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, straightway, leaving the nets, they followed him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And immediately leaving their nets, they followed him.

Revised Standard Version
And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And strayght waye they forsoke their nettes and folowed him.

Young's Literal Translation
and immediately, having left their nets, they followed him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And immediatly they left their nettes, and folowed him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
immediately they quitted their nets, and followed him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴After all this, old John was thrown in jail and Jesus went into the Galilee country to tell people the good news. ¹⁵He told 'em, "Y'all been waiting for a long time and the Boss's Green Pasture has made it here. Quit riding in sin and tie hard and fast to the good news." ¹⁶As Jesus rode along telling people this same message over and over, he run into a couple of fellows near the Sea of Galilee. These two cowboys, Simon and Andrew, were gathering some heifers. ¹⁷Jesus hollered over to 'em and said, "Ride with me and I'll teach you how to gather cowboys." ¹⁸They immediately coiled their ropes up and loped off after him. ¹⁹As they were riding, they came upon a cowboy named James and his brother John. ²⁰They were patching a water trough and Jesus told 'em to saddle up and ride with him. James and John left their old dad sitting there as they rode off with Jesus. ²¹The cowboys rode all the way to Capernaum. When the day of rest came (the old timers called it the Sabbath), Jesus went up to the church building and began to give all them folks a clinic on what it means to ride for God. ²²These folks couldn't believe what he was teaching them. It was like he knew what he was talking about instead of being like those other preachers who just wanted to hear themselves talk and make up rules.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forsook: Mark 10:28-31, Matthew 19:27-30, Luke 5:11, Luke 14:33, Luke 18:28-30, Philippians 3:8

Reciprocal: Matthew 4:19 - I will

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And straightway they forsook their nets,.... Which perhaps were their all; see Matthew 19:27.

And followed him; both in a corporeal and spiritual sense;

Matthew 19:27- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 4:18-22.