Mark 1:18 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 1:18

And at once they left their nets and followed Him.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And straightway they left the nets, and followed him.

KJV

And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 5 (604)

You have heard, dearest brothers, that at the voice of a single command, Peter and Andrew, leaving their nets, followed the Redeemer. They had seen him perform no miracles yet, they had heard nothing from him about the reward of eternal recompense; and yet at one command of the Lord they forgot what they seemed to possess. How many of his miracles do we see, with how many scourges are we afflicted, by how many harsh threats are we deterred, and yet we disdain to follow him when he calls?

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

This passage is singularly full of matter. It is a striking instance of that brevity of style, which is the peculiar characteristic of Mark's Gospel. The baptism of our Lord, His temptation in the wilderness, the commencement of his preaching, and the calling of His first disciples are related here in eleven verses. Let us notice, in the first place, the voice from heaven which was heard at our Lord's baptism. We read, "There came a voice from heaven, saying, You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." That voice was the voice of God the Father.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
εὐθὺς	euthus	immediately	G2112 →
ἀφέντες	aphentes	having left	G863 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
δίκτυα	diktua	nets	G1350 →
ἠκολούθησαν	ēkolouthēsan	they followed	G190 →
αὐτῷ.¶	autō	Him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 14:33
In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
leads to
- Luke 5:28
  and Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 18:28–30
  “Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Philippians 3:7–8
  But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
- 1 John 2:15–16
  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- Luke 14:26
  “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Through
Luke 5:11
And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.
leads to
- Matthew 4:20
  And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
- Matthew 19:27
  “Look,” Peter replied, “we have left everything to follow You. What then will there be for us?”
- Mark 10:21
  Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then…

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark