When Jesus calls James and John they are mending their nets with their father. They leave the boat and their father, and follow him. This is no trivial detail – a product of the fact that (unlike Simon and Andrew, in the previous verses) the sons of Zebedee happened to be on a job with their dad on the day when Jesus called them. It’s a pattern that Matthew keeps returning to through the rest of his gospel. For the disciples, the call to follow Jesus means literally leaving the family and the family business to travel around Galilee and Judea to go on the road with the itinerant rabbi Jesus.
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