“And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.”
So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him — left everything (aphentes panta): the completeness of the response is emphatic. Not the nets this time (as in Mark) but everything — the boats, the fish (a fortune, after the miraculous catch), the whole life they have known. The completeness of the leaving is proportionate to the completeness of the encounter.
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