Luke 5:27
And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.
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28And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
Cross References
Matthew 4:19And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Matthew 9:9And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.
Mark 3:18And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;
John 1:43And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).
John 21:19Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after 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 →