A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

^7 (A)Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ^(B)a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea ⁸ and Jerusalem and ^(C)Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ^(D)Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. ⁹ And he told his disciples to ^(E)have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ^(F)crush him, ¹⁰ for ^(G)he had healed many, so that all who had ^(H)diseases pressed around him ^(I)to touch him. ^11 (J)And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ^(K)fell down before him and cried out, “You are ^(L)the Son of God.” ¹² And ^(M)he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

The Twelve Apostles

^13 (N)And he went up on the mountain and called to him those ^(O)whom he desired, and they came to him. ^14 (P)And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach ^15 (Q)and have authority to cast out demons. ¹⁶ He appointed the twelve: ^(R)Simon (to whom ^(S)he gave the name Peter); ^17 (T)James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); ¹⁸ Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and ^(U)Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,^{[a] 19} and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.