16 the people who sit in darkness
    have seen a great light,
and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death,
    a light has dawned on them.”[a]

17 From that time on, Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

18 Now as he[b] was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, throwing a casting net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:16 A quotation from Isa 9:1
  2. Matthew 4:18 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was walking”) which is understood as temporal