Mark 1:20

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Immediately, he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired workers and followed him.

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  • Deut 33:9 : 9 He said of his father and mother, "I do not regard them;" he did not acknowledge his brothers or recognize his children, for they kept Your word and guarded Your covenant.
  • 1 Kgs 19:20 : 20 Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, 'Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.' Elijah said to him, 'Go back, for what have I done to you?'
  • Matt 4:21-22 : 21 Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and He called them. 22 And immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.
  • Matt 8:21-22 : 21 Another of His disciples said to Him, 'Lord, let me first go and bury my father.' 22 But Jesus told him, 'Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.'
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Mark 10:29 : 29 Jesus said, 'Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left home, brothers, sisters, father, mother, wife, children, or fields for my sake and for the gospel,
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Even though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

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