Straightway. Immediately—as all should do when the Lord Jesus calls them.

Left their nets. Their nets were the means of th…

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 they straightway left their nets
That is, as soon as he had called them, they left their worldly employment, and…

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…