Healing and throwing demons out
7 Jesus left with his disciples and went to the lake. A large crowd followed him because they had heard what he was doing. They were from Galilee,
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Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the area surrounding Tyre and Sidon.
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Jesus told his disciples to get a small boat ready for him so the crowd wouldn't crush him.
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He had healed so many people that everyone who was sick pushed forward so that they could touch him.
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Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down at his feet and shouted, "You are God's Son!"
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But he strictly ordered them not to reveal who he was.
Jesus appoints twelve apostles
13 Jesus went up on a mountain and called those he wanted, and they came to him.
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He appointed twelve and called them apostles. He appointed them to be with him, to be sent out to preach,
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and to have authority to throw out demons.
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He appointed twelve: Peter, a name he gave Simon;
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James and John, Zebedee's sons, whom he nicknamed Boanerges, which means "sons of Thunder";