Come ye after me

Mark 1:17 KJV

And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

Matthew's version reads "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men." There is no conflict here but the dynamic of the truth being in both. For my purpose I wish to focus on the specifics of Mark's version; “Come ye after me”

It means virtually the same as follow but accents key aspects:

Come- this isn't passive. It requires action. One thing must be left. A new thing must be achieved.

Ye-It is a personal thing. It can't be done vicariously or through proxy. Each one of us must come. We are taught do it as a unit, the part of the body which is a local church, but we must each do it.

After- Jesus has gone before. We come up to where He is.  Christianity is a direction. It is not a shotgun life where we scatter our own ways and God collects it into something that makes sense. It is a rifle shot where we each are aimed at the bull’s-eye of God's will.

I will make you to become- A process is implied; a process which I believe lasts a lifetime. It may be we never fully believe we have become "fishers of men" but that we somewhere in the process of becoming fisher, we have caught men.