The Complete Sayings of Jesus

By the Sea — Christ Chooses the Four — The Cure in the Synagogue — Solitary Prayer — In "The Next Towns" Round About Galilee.

A.D. 28. Age 31 Galilee: Capernaum.

Mark 1, 16-26; Luke 4, 31 . . . 38 . . . 44; Matthew 4, 17 . . . 25.

NOW as Jesus walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. He said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. Follow me. Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. When he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in a ship with their father, mending their nets. He called them: and they left their father in the ship with the hired servants, and followed Jesus.

They went into Capernaum; and on the sabbath day Jesus entered into the synagogue, and taught. They were astonished: for his word was with power: he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. There was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Let us alone, thou Jesus of Nazareth. Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art: the Holy One of God. Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. When the unclean spirit had thrown the man in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.

Jesus arose, and, when they were come out of the synagogue, entered the house of Peter and Andrew, with James and John.

In the morning, rising up a great while before day, Jesus went out into a solitary place, and there prayed. The people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart. He said, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent. Simon and they that were with him followed after Jesus, and when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee. He answered, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. His fame went throughout Syria. And there followed him multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis;¹ from Jerusalem, and Judea; and from beyond Jordan.

Footnotes:

¹Decapolis: The region bordering the Sea of Galilee eastward, and embracing the adjacent lands in which lay the ten (allied) cities then known collectively as Decapolis.