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Weymouth New Testament

Mark 1:18

At once they left their nets and followed Him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Minister, Christian;   Obedience;   Peter;   Self-Denial;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fall;   Immediate;   Peter;   Service;   Simon Peter;   Work-Workers, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Self-Denial;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Disciple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disciple, Discipleship;   Work;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fishing, the Art of;   Galilee, Sea of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Mark, the Gospel According to;   Peter;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Family;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Net;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John the Apostle;   Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Apostles;   Brotherhood (2);   Call, Calling;   Capernaum;   Dates (2);   Discipleship;   Discipline (2);   Fish, Fisher, Fishing;   Forsaking All;   Holy Spirit (2);   Incarnation (2);   James and John, the Sons of Zebedee;   John (the Apostle);   Labour (2);   Manuscripts;   Nets;   Peter;   Poverty (2);   Union;   Wealth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - James;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Andrew;   James;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Andrew;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Simon Cephas;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 22;  

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,
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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
They immediately coiled their ropes up and loped off after him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

Contextual Overview

14 Then, after John had been thrown into prison, Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming God's Good News. 15 "The time has fully come," He said, "and the Kingdom of God is close at hand: repent, and believe this Good News. 16 One day, passing along the shore of the Lake of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, throwing their nets in the Lake; for they were fisherman. 17 "Come and follow me," said Jesus, "and I will make you fishers for men." 18 At once they left their nets and followed Him. 19 Going on a little further He saw James the son of Zabdi and his brother John: they also were in the boat mending the nets, and He immediately called them. 20 They therefore left their father Zabdi in the boat with the hired men, and went and followed Him. 21 So they came to Capernaum, and on the next Sabbath He went to the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people listened with amazement to His teaching--for there was authority about it: it was very different from that of the Scribes--

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.


 
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