Matthew 4:18

By the Sea of Galilee Jesus sees the fishermen brothers Simon Peter and Andrew. It begins the calling of His first disciples.

Cross-references · 21

• John 1:40–42One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
• Matt 10:2Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
• Luke 6:14Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;
• Mark 1:16–20Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
• Luke 5:1–11Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
• Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
• Matt 15:29Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
• Mark 7:31Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis.
• John 6:1After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
• John 21:1After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
• Judg 6:11–12Yahweh’s angel came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
• 1 Cor 1:27–29but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
• John 6:8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
• Exod 3:10Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
• Deut 3:17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
• Amos 7:14–15Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
• Ps 78:70–72He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
• Exod 3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
• 1 Kgs 19:19–21So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.
• Matt 1:16–18Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
• Num 34:11The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.

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