Detentus a turbis: _Oportet me,_ inquit, _el aliis civitatibus_ _annuntiare regnum dei._ Luke v.

42, 43: Ibat in desertum sertum locum ...

et detinebant illum ne discederet ab eis.

Quibus ille ait quia, Et aliis civitatibus oportet me evangelizare regnum dei.
His discussion of the fifth chapter Tertullian begins by asking why, out of all possible occupations, Christ should have fixed upon that of fishing, to take from thence His apostles, Simon and the sons of Zebedee.

There was a meaning in the act which appears in the reply to Peter, 'Thou shalt catch men,' where there is a reference to a prophecy of Jeremiah (ch.xvi.