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But no sooner had the Pharisees left the synagogue than they held a consultation with the Herodians against Jesus, to devise some means of destroying Him.
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Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed Him;
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and from Judaea and Jerusalem and Idumaea and from beyond the Jordan and from the district of Tyre and Sidon there came to Him a vast crowd, hearing of all that He was doing.
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So He gave directions to His disciples to keep a small boat in constant attendance on Him because of the throng--to prevent their crushing Him.
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For He had cured many of the people, so that all who had any ailments pressed upon Him, to touch Him.
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And the foul spirits, whenever they saw Him, threw themselves down at His feet, screaming out: "You are the Son of God."
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But He many a time checked them, forbidding them to say who He was.
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Then He went up the hill; and those whom He Himself chose He called, and they came to Him.
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He appointed twelve of them, that they might be with Him, and that He might also send them to proclaim His Message,
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with authority to expel the demons.
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These twelve were Simon (to whom He gave the surname of Peter),