When did Peter and Andrew join Jesus as His disciples?
Does the text in John 1: 35-42 contradict with the Information provided in Matthew 4:18-22, Mark 1:16-20 and Luke 5:1-11?
John 1:35 - 42
ESV - 35 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples. 36 And he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!
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Tim Maas
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In the account of John, Peter meets Jesus just after Jesus has been baptized, tempted in the wilderness, and come back (John 1:32-34). In Luke, Jesus was tempted in chapter 4. Afterward, in chapter 5 (coinciding with the chronology in John 1), he calls Peter as a disciple (paralleled in Matthew 4 and Mark 1). In Luke 4:38-39, just before Peter and Andrew were called, Jesus went from the synagogue to the house of Peter (who is referred to there as Simon) to heal his mother-in-law. (This is before Jesus called him as a disciple.) Also, in Luke 5:3, Luke first refers to Peter simply by the name of Simon, just as in Luke 4:38, so it would appear to be the same Simon whose house He had visited, or else Luke should/would have given him a distinction, like Simon the fisher, in order to clarify it wasn't the Simon discussed only about ten verses earlier.) Then Jesus called him as an apostle after that healing.
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