In this Gospel preaching, you will hear of three people who were called by Jesus. Each came to know Jesus personally as a result of the Lord drawing near and presenting the Gospel message.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
Luke 5:27-32 “27 And after these things he went forth and saw a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me.28 And having left all, rising up, he followed him.29 And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.30 And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?31 And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.
32 I am not come to call righteous [persons], but sinful [ones] to repentance.”
John 4:4-15 “4 And he must needs pass through Samaria.5 He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.6 Now a fountain of Jacob’s was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.7 A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink
8 (for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).9 The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.10 Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?13 Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again;14 but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.15 The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.”
John 4:28-30 “28 The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,29 Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?30 They went out of the city and came to him.”
John 4:38-42 “39 But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.
40 When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.41 And more a great deal believed on account of his word;42 and they said to the woman, [It is] no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.”
Acts 9:1-20 “But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest2 and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.3 But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven,4 and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?
5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [said], *I* am Jesus, whom *thou* persecutest.6 But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.7 But the men who were travelling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but beholding no one.8 And Saul rose up from the earth, and his eyes being opened he saw no one. But leading [him] by the hand they brought him into Damascus.9 And he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor drank.10 And there was a certain disciple in Damascus by name Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, [here am] I, Lord.
11 And the Lord [said] to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, [he is] of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,12 and has seen [in a vision] a man by name Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he should see.13 And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.15 And the Lord said to him, Go, for this [man] is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and [the] sons of Israel:16 for *I* will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name.17 And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest, that thou mightest see, and be filled with [the] Holy Spirit.
18 And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he saw, and rising up was baptised;19 and, having received food, got strength. And he was with the disciples who [were] in Damascus certain days.20 And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that *he* is the Son of God.”