Mark 3:8-18

8 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.

9 And he told his disciples to ³have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ⁴crush him,

10 for ⁵he had healed many, so that all who had ⁶diseases pressed around him ⁷to touch him.

11 ⁸And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ⁹fell down before him and cried out, “You are ¹⁰the Son of God. ”

12 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.

14 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.

16 He appointed the twelve: ¹⁶Simon (to whom ¹⁷he gave the name Peter);

17 ¹⁸James 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 ¹⁹Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot, ^[a]

Cross References

• 1. 3:8 Isa. 34:5; Ezek. 35:15
• 2. 3:8 See Matt. 11:21
• 3. 3:9 ch. 6:32, 45 (Gk.); 8:10 (Gk.)
• 4. 3:9 ch. 5:24, 31
• 5. 3:10 See Matt. 4:23
• 6. 3:10 ch. 5:29, 34
• 7. 3:10 ch. 6:56; Matt. 9:20, 21; 14:36; Luke 6:19
• 8. 3:11 ch. 1:26, 34; Luke 4:41
• 9. 3:11 Luke 8:28
• 10. 3:11 See Matt. 14:33
• 11. 3:12 See Matt. 12:16
• 12. 3:13 Matt. 10:1; Luke 6:12, 13; [ch. 6:7-13; Luke 9:1, 2]
• 13. 3:13 John 13:18; 15:16, 19
• 14. 3:14 [See ver. 13 above]
• 15. 3:15 [See ver. 13 above]
• 16. 3:16 For ver. 16-19, see Matt. 10:2-4; Luke 6:14-16; Acts 1:13
• 17. 3:16 Matt. 16:18; John 1:42
• 18. 3:17 Matt. 4:21
• 19. 3:18 Matt. 9:9

Footnotes

• [a] 3:18 Greek 'kananaios', meaning 'zealot'