Come, and I will make you fishers of men I will enable you to draw them into my true church by the net of my gospel. And straightway Upon his call; leaving their nets, they followed him From this time they forsook their employ, and constantly attended him. Happy they who follow Christ at the first call! When he had gone thence, he saw James See on Matthew 4:21. Mending their nets, which they had washed, Luke 5:2. The Greek word, καταρτιζοντας, here rendered mending, or refitting, signifies also preparing, or making.
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Mark 1:17-20
17 And Jesus said unto them,Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
19 And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.