Mending their nets (καταρτιζοντας τα δικτυα αυτων). These two brothers, James and John, were getting their nets ready for use. The…

Mending their nets — On the assumption that the account in Saint Luke preceded what we read here, the “mending” might seem to be t…

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…

James and John may have been making repairs after a night’s fishing. Jesus took the initiative and “called” (GK 2813) them. In the Synoptics, unlik…

And going on from thence, he saw other two
When he had gone but a little way further, (Mark 1:19) he spi…

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…