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-# Connecting Statement:
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-Jesus is teaching the crowd beside the Sea of Galilee, and he calls Levi to follow him.
-
 # the lake
 
 This is the Sea of Galilee, which is also known as the Lake of Gennesaret.
 
-# the crowd came to him
-
-"the people went where he was"
-