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Mark 2:13-22
Then Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to Him, and He taught them.Then, moving on, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and He said to him,“ Follow Me!” So he got up and followed Him.While He was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also guests with Jesus and His disciples, because there were many who were following Him.When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples,“ Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”When Jesus heard this, He told them,“ Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked Him,“ Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”Jesus said to them,“ The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.But the time will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, and a worse tear is made.And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
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Matthew 9:9-17
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and He said to him,“ Follow Me!” So he got up and followed Him.While He was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus and His disciples.When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples,“ Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”But when He heard this, He said,“ Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do.Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”Then John’s disciples came to Him, saying,“ Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?”Jesus said to them,“ Can the wedding guests be sad while the groom is with them? The time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.No one patches an old garment with unshrunk cloth, because the patch pulls away from the garment and makes the tear worse.And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. But they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
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Mark 3:18
Andrew; Philip and Bartholomew; Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot,
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Matthew 10:3
Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
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Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard this, He told him,“ You still lack one thing: Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
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Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples,“ If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
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John 1:43
The next day He decided to leave for Galilee. Jesus found Philip and told him,“ Follow Me!”
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John 12:26
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
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Matthew 8:22
But Jesus told him,“ Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
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Matthew 4:19-21
“ Follow Me,” He told them,“ and I will make you fish for people!”Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and He called them.
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John 21:19-22
He said this to signify by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, He told him,“ Follow Me!”So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them. That disciple was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked,“ Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray You?”When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus,“ Lord— what about him?”“ If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered,“ what is that to you? As for you, follow Me.”