"Very early in the morning, before daylight, JESUS went off to a lonely place where HE prayed. Simon and the others went out also, searching for HIM; and when they found HIM, they said, 'Everyone is looking for YOU.' Then JESUS answered, 'Let us go to the nearby villages so that I may preach there too; for that is why I came.'
So JESUS set out to preach in all synagogues throughout Galilee; HE also cast out demons." - Mark 1:35-39
(The apostles knew GOD since childhood through the Scripture's teachings; perhaps they had not discovered GOD within their own lives but prayed to GOD as to a distant stranger. When they joined JESUS, they immediately understood that there was something extraordinary about HIM. They were especially taken with HIS apparent intimacy with GOD. The most extraordinary thing they noted in HIS manner and actions was HIS intimate and faithful union with HIS FATHER.
Living with JESUS, they begin to desire to know the FATHER more fully, something like JESUS knows HIM [Luke 11:1; John 14:8; 15:15].)
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