Luke 5:27
And after these tilings, he went out and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the custom-house; and he said to him: Follow me.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
28And leaving all, he arose and followed him.
Cross References
Matthew 4:19And he said to them: Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Matthew 9:9And as Jesus passed by from that place, he saw a man named Matthew, sitting at the custom-house; and he said to him: Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any one determines to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 3:18and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the Son of Alphæus, and Thaddæus, and Simon the Canaanite,
John 1:43and he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking on him, said: You are Simon, the son of Jonah; you shall be called Cephas (which, when translated, is Rock).
John 21:19But this he said, signifying by what death he would glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he said to him: Follow me.
Matthew Henry on Luke 5:18-27
Cure of a Paralytic. 17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the… Read the whole commentary →