Verse 20
Matthew 4:20
Bible in Basic English
20
And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.
Original Language Text
greek
οἱ δὲ εὐθέως ἀφέντες τὰ δίκτυα ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ.
English Translation
But they immediately left their nets and followed him.
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Chapter 4 Context
1
Then Yashua (Jesus) was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
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And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
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And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God (Elohim), give the word for these s...
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But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word whi...
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Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and s...
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If you are the Son of God (Elohim), let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give hi...
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Yashua (Jesus) said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God (Elohim)...
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Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the wor...
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And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me w...
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Then said Yashua (Jesus) to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord yo...
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11
Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.
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12
Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;
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And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, i...
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So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,
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The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galil...
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The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death di...
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From that time Yashua (Jesus) went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, f...
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And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Pete...
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And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.
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And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.
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And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother,...
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And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.
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And Yashua (Jesus) went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good ne...
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And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different dis...
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And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from...
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