19 And he said to them, “Follow me[a] and I will make you fishers of people.” 20 And immediately they left their nets and[b] followed him. 21 And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:19 Literally “come behind me”
  2. Matthew 4:20 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“left”) has been translated as a finite verb