Luke 5:27
And after these things, Jesus went out and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting among the publicans; and he said to him: Come after me.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
28And he left every thing, and arose, and went after him.
Cross References
Matthew 4:19And Jesus said to them: Follow me; and I will cause you to become fishers of men.
Matthew 9:9And as Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man sitting at the custom-house, whose name was Matthew. And he said to him, Follow me: and he arose and followed him.
Matthew 16:24Then said Jesus to his disciples: If any one desireth to come after me, let him deny himself; and let him bear his cross, and come after me.
Mark 3:18And he chose also Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
John 1:43The next day, Jesus was disposed to depart for Galilee: and he found Philip and said to him, Come after me.
John 21:19And this he said, to show by what death he was to glorify God. And having said these things, 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 →