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The First Disciples

One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee,[a] great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. He noticed two empty boats at the water’s edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:1 Greek Lake Gennesaret, another name for the Sea of Galilee.

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