into Galilee proclaiming God's Good News.
001:015 "The time has fully come," He said, "and the Kingdom of God
is close at hand: repent, and believe this Good News.
001:016 One day, passing along the shore of the Lake of Galilee, He saw
Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, throwing their nets in the Lake;
for they were fisherman.
001:017 "Come and follow me," said Jesus, "and I will make you
fishers for men."
001:018 At once they left their nets and followed Him.
001:019 Going on a little further He saw James the son of Zabdi and his
brother John: they also were in the boat mending the nets,
and He immediately called them.
001:020 They therefore left their father Zabdi in the boat with
the hired men, and went and followed Him.
001:021 So they came to Capernaum, and on the next Sabbath He went
to the synagogue and began to teach.
001:022 The people listened with amazement to His teaching--
for there was authority about it: it was very different
from that of the Scribes--
001:023 when all at once, there in their synagogue, a man under the power
of a foul spirit screamed out:
001:024 "What have you to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you
come to destroy us? I know who you are--God's Holy One."
001:025 But Jesus reprimanded him, saying, "Silence! come out of him."
001:026 So the foul spirit, after throwing the man into convulsions,
came out of him with a loud cry.
001:027 And all were amazed and awe-struck, so they began to ask one another,
"What does this mean? Here is a new sort of teaching--
and a tone of authority! And even to foul spirits he issues
orders and they obey him!"