“And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.”
And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. The second pair of brothers is found also at work, but doing the less dramatic work of net repair rather than active fishing. Their situation is slightly different: they are in the boat with their father Zebedee, which adds the dimension of family loyalty to what they are about to leave. Calling brothers in pairs creates the first community of disciples — no one is called alone; the kingdom is from the beginning a communal enterprise. Mark 10:35–45 will show James and John at the center of the earliest discipleship struggles, suggesting that their immediate response did not produce immediate spiritual maturity.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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