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Gospel Reading - Fishing for people

^12-13When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he left Judea and returned home^a to Nazareth in Galilee; but soon he moved to Capernaum, beside the Lake of Galilee, close to Zebulun and Naphtali. ¹⁴This fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy:

^15-16“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, beside the lake, and the countryside beyond the Jordan River, and Upper Galilee where so many foreigners live — there the people who sat in darkness have seen a great Light; they sat in the land of death, and the Light broke through upon them.” ^b

¹⁷From then on, Jesus began to preach, “Turn from sin and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.”^c

¹⁸One day as he was walking along the beach beside the Lake of Galilee, he saw two brothers — Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew — out in a boat^d fishing with a net, for they were commercial fishermen.

¹⁹ Jesus called out, “Come along with me and I will show you how to fish for the souls of men!” ²⁰And they left their nets at once and went with him.

²¹A little farther up the beach he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, mending their nets; and he called to them to come too. ²²At once they stopped their work and, leaving their father behind, went with him.

²³Jesus traveled all through Galilee teaching in the Jewish synagogues, everywhere preaching the Good News about the Kingdom of Heaven. And he healed every kind of sickness and disease.

1. Implied
2. broke through upon them, see Isaiah 9:1-2.
3. Or “is at hand,” or “has arrived.”
4. Implied