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|And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

|And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

|And he told them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of people."

|And he told them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of people."

|The context -- speaking to two rugged fishermen -- makes it clear that the masculine meaning of ανθρωπων was the connotation.  In modern terminology, no few would use a football analogy with a gender-neutral pronoun.

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|ανθρωπος is a gender-neutral word, which means 'person', not 'man'. What you would like this verse to mean isn't relevant.  

*The context -- speaking to two rugged fishermen -- makes it clear that the masculine meaning of ανθρωπων was the connotation.  In modern terminology, no few would use a football analogy with a gender-neutral pronoun.

*ανθρωπος is a gender-neutral word, which means 'person', not 'man'. What you would like this verse to mean isn't relevant.  

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