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When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
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Forsaking Success for Christ
Commentators like Matthew Henry highlight a crucial detail: the disciples left their fishing business immediately after a miraculous, record-breaking catch. They didn't leave because their business was failing; they left at its most prosperous moment. This demonstrates that following Jesus was more valuable to them than any worldly success or wealth.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Forsook all. It was not much that they left — a couple of small boats and their nets; but it was all they had, even all their living. But …
They left all, and followed him (αφεντες παντα ηκολουθησαν). Then and there. They had already become his disciples. Now they leave…
19th Century
Anglican
They forsook all . . .—This is obviously the strong point in favour of the identity of the facts related by the three Eva…
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Baptist
And when they had brought the ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him, and it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a m…
Luke now moves quickly to three focal points in his narrative. (1) He describes the gathering of the fish. The details of the breaking nets and loa…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when they had brought their ships to land
Both Simon Peter's, and the other in which his partners were, and wh…
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