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Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready so that the crowd would not crush him.
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He had cured so many that everyone with a disease rushed up to him in order to touch him.
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Whenever people with evil spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and shout, "You are the Son of God!"
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He gave them orders not to tell people who he was.
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Jesus went up a mountain, called those whom he wanted, and they came to him.
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He appointed twelve whom he called apostles. They were to accompany him and to be sent out by him to spread [the Good News].
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They also had the authority to force demons out of people.
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He appointed these twelve: Simon (whom Jesus named Peter),
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James and his brother John (Zebedee's sons whom Jesus named Boanerges, which means "Thunderbolts"),
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Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James (son of Alphaeus), Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,
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and Judas Iscariot (who later betrayed Jesus).