Jesus Heals Crowds by the Sea
7 And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd from Galilee followed [him]. And from Judea
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and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him [because they] heard all that he was doing.
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And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him.
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For he had healed many, so that all those who {were suffering from diseases} pressed about him in order that they could touch him.
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And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, "You are the Son of God!"
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And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known.
The Selection of the Twelve Apostles
13 And he went up on the mountain and summoned [those] whom he wanted, and they came to him.
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And he appointed twelve, so that they would be with him and so that he could send them out to preach
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and to have authority to expel demons.
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And he appointed the twelve. And to Simon he gave the name Peter,
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and James the [son] of Zebedee and John the brother of James (and he gave to them the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder"),