<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4:22&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">And they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him-&nbsp;</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They became His disciples, that is the meaning of the idiom. The way the Lord called people in the midst of their daily lives, and they immediately &ldquo;left all and followed Him&rdquo; is surely recorded to set a pattern for all future response to Him (Mt. 4:22; Mk. 1:18). See on :20. Those fishermen who left their nets had heard the message some time earlier, but the record is framed so as to stress the immediacy and totality of response to Him, in the midst of daily life. In a day when the complexity of modern living can become an excuse to justify almost anything as an expression of discipleship, we need to remember the starker simplicities of Jesus&rsquo; first call: &ldquo;Follow me&rdquo;. And the immediate response which was made to it. In this sense, Jesus through His word that makes Him flesh to us, i.e. an imaginable person&hellip;still walks up to fishermen, into shops, accountants&rsquo; offices, school classrooms: and bids us urgently and immediately leave behind our worldly advantage, and follow Him in the way of true discipleship. The immediacy of response is quite a theme (:20, and especially in Mark's early chapters). It continues with the speed at which people were baptized in the Acts.&nbsp;</span></p>