And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
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Gill's Exposition
And when they had brought their ships to land,.... Both Simon Peter's, and the other in which his partners were, and which were laden with fish:
they forsook all; even all their fish, which they…
Barnes' Notes
Forsook all - It was not “much” that they left - a couple of small boats and their nets; but it was all they had, even all their living. But this showed their love of Jesus, and their willingness to…
Adam Clarke
They forsook all, and followed him - God expects this from every person, and especially from those in whose hearts, or in whose behalf, he has wrought a miracle of grace or of providence. Jesus…
This passage of story fell, in order of time, before the two miracles we had in the close of the foregoing chapter, and is the same with that which was more briefly related by Matthew and Mark, of…
Cambridge Bible
they forsook all The sacrifice was a willing one, but they were not unconscious of its magnitude; and it was the allusion to it by Peter which called forth the memorable promise of the hundredfold…
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