Matthew 4:20

4:20 They ¹  left their nets immediately and followed him. ² 

Matthew 4:22

4:22 They ³  immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.

Matthew 8:1

Cleansing a Leper

8:1 After he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.

Matthew 8:23

Stilling of a Storm

8:23 As he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. ⁴ 

Matthew 19:2

19:2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

Matthew 4:25

4:25 And large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, ⁵  Jerusalem, ⁶  Judea, and beyond the Jordan River. ⁷ 

Matthew 9:27

Healing the Blind and Mute

9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, ⁸  “Have mercy ⁹  on us, Son of David!” ¹⁰ 

Matthew 12:15

God’s Special Servant

12:15 Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great ¹¹  crowds ¹²  followed him, and he healed them all.

Matthew 20:34

20:34 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

Matthew 14:13

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

14:13 Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, ¹³  they followed him on foot from the towns. ¹⁴ 

Matthew 27:55

27:55 Many ¹⁵  women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support ¹⁶  were also there, watching from a distance.

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² sn The expression followed him pictures discipleship, which means that to learn from Jesus is to follow him as the guiding priority of one’s life.

³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁵ sn A boat that held all the disciples would be of significant size.

⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated before each of the places in the list, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

⁸ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁹ tn “River” is not in the Greek text but is supplied for clarity. The region referred to here is sometimes known as Transjordan (i.e., “across the Jordan”).

⁹ tn Grk “shouting, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

¹⁰ sn Have mercy on us is a request for healing. It is not owed to the men. They simply ask for God’s kind grace.

¹¹ sn There was a tradition in Judaism that the Son of David (Solomon) had great powers of healing (Josephus, Ant. 8.2.5 [8.42-49]).

¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

¹² tc א B pc lat read only πολλοί (polloi, “many”) here, the first hand of N reads ὄχλοι (ocloi, “crowds”), while virtually all the rest of the witnesses have ὄχλοι πολλοί (ocloi polloi, “great crowds”). In spite of the good quality of both א and B (especially in combination), and the testimony of the Latin witnesses, the longer reading is most likely correct; the shorter readings were probably due to homoioteleuton.

¹³ tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

¹⁴ tn Or “cities.”

¹⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹⁶ tn Grk “and ministered to him.”