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And
1he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
The Twelve Apostles
13 2And he went up on the mountain and called to him those
3whom he desired, and they came to him.
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4And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach
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5and have authority to cast out demons.
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8James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);
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Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and
9Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,
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and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
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Then he went
10home, and the crowd gathered again,
11so that they could not even eat.
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12And when
13his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He
14is out of his mind. ”
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
22 And
15the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying,
16“He is possessed by Beelzebul, ” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons. ”