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and Jerusalem and
1Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around
2Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.
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And he told his disciples to
3have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they
4crush him,
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for
5he had healed many, so that all who had
6diseases pressed around him
7to touch him.
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8And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they
9fell down before him and cried out, "You are
10the Son of God."
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And
11he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
The Twelve Apostles
13 12And he went up on the mountain and called to him those
13whom he desired, and they came to him.
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14And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach
15
15and have authority to cast out demons.
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He appointed the twelve:
16Simon (to whom
17he gave the name Peter);
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18James 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
19Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,