\u00a0<\/sup> Now when he heard that\u00a0John had been arrested,\u00a0he withdrew into Galilee.\u00a013\u00a0<\/sup>And leaving\u00a0Nazareth he went and lived in\u00a0Capernaum by\u00a0the sea, in the territory of\u00a0Zebulun and Naphtali,\u00a014\u00a0<\/sup>so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15 <\/sup>\u201cThe land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, 17 <\/sup>From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, \u201cRepent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18 <\/sup>While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 <\/sup>And he said to them, \u201cFollow me, and I will make you fishers of men.\u201d 20 <\/sup>Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 21 <\/sup>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. 22 <\/sup>Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 23 <\/sup>And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. 24 <\/sup>So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. 25 <\/sup>And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Matthew 4:12-25] Have you responded to the call of the King?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[6],"ctc_sermon_book":[9],"ctc_sermon_series":[473],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[7],"ctc_sermon_tag":[479],"class_list":["post-5132","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_book-matthew","ctc_sermon_series-the-preparation-of-the-king","ctc_sermon_speaker-tim-pyne","ctc_sermon_tag-matthew-412-25","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/5132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/5132\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles\u2014
16 <\/sup>the people dwelling in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death,
on them a light has dawned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n