Yes we do have various glimpses of Jesus calling the same disciples...as in Jesus naming the 12 after a night of prayer, (which naturally included Simon), then Jesus calling Simon from his nets by the sea (as here), then (seemingly from John 1, Simon is one of the first to follow Jesus from Judea to Galilee.
One might consider these three stories contradictory or happening on three separate occasions marking three significant events in Simon's discipleship. A little background helps. In Jesus' day, students or disciples followed their rabbi for long stretches at a time and then like our universities summer breaks, they went off home, only to return later for another "semester!"
Here's something we can ask Simon Peter when we see him face to face!
Brian
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