Fishers of men (αλεεις ανθρωπων). Andrew and Simon were fishers by trade. They had already become disciples of Jesus ([Reference J…

Fishers of men. Ministers or preachers of the gospel, whose business it is to win souls to Christ.

Follow me — The command came, as we have seen, to those who were not unprepared. Short as it was, it was in some sense the first p…

I like those words "all manner"—that is, every kind and every sort of sickness and disease Christ met. Perhaps you, dear friend, are afflicted in y…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: Before He spoke or did anything, Christ called the Apostles, so that neither His word nor His deed s…

According to Jn 1:35–51 Peter and Andrew first followed Jesus at an earlier date, but then presumably took up fishing again. Perhaps this earlier e…

And he says to them, follow me

These two brethren has been the disciples of John, as Theophylact thinks, and which…

When Christ began to preach, he began to gather disciples, who would be hearers and afterward preachers of his doctrine, who would be witnesses of …

The Evangelist showed how Christ was tried and approved, specifically by conquering the devil; here he shows how Christ began to teach. In this reg…