Luke 5:27
After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, “Follow me!”
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28So leaving everything he got up and followed Him.
Cross References
Matthew 4:19And He says to them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.”
Matthew 9:9And going on from there Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and He says to him, “Follow me.” So getting up he followed Him.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to His disciples: “If anyone desires to come after me, let him really deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 3:18Andrew, Phillip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite;
John 1:43The next day He decided to go to Galilee, so He finds Philip and says to him, “Follow me.”
John 21:19(He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) And upon saying that He says 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 →