16. --the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.
17. From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.
18. And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers;
19. and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20. And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately followed him.
21. And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;
22. and they, having left the ship and their father, immediately followed him.
23. And Jesus went round the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.
24. And his fame went out into the whole of Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
25. And great crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond the Jordan.