<p>8:1<i> In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him, and said to them</i>- We often meet this note in the Gospels. The implication is surely that if discipleship involves being with and following Jesus, then the disciples are therefore recording their own weakness in noting that they were often&nbsp;<i>not</i>&nbsp;with Jesus and had to be called unto Him. And it is observable that in many of the cases of being called to Him, they were somehow astray in action or attitude- separated from Him not just physically. The Greek specifically means &lsquo;to call towards&rsquo;, and so the pattern is established of the Lord&rsquo;s basic call being repeated throughout the course of our discipleship.</p>