He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men."
Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.
He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,
For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."
Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.
Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away.
Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"
When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"
After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.
while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
And he is the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.