God’s Chosen Servant
15 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all
A Great Crowd Follows Jesus
7 vJesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 9 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they wcrush him, 10 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. 11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, x“You are the ySon of God.” 12 And he strictly zordered them not to make him known.
17 This was xto fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
18 y“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen,
my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
19 He will not quarrel or cry aloud,
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets;
20 a bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not quench,
until he brings justice to victory;
21 and zin his name the Gentiles will hope.”
The Twelve Apostles
12 nIn these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them otwelve, whom he named apostles:
14 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach 15 and have bauthority to cast out demons. 16 He appointed the ctwelve: dSimon (to whom he gave the ename Peter); 17 fJames the son of Zebedee and gJohn the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18 hAndrew, and iPhilip, and jBartholomew, and kMatthew, and lThomas, and mJames the son of Alphaeus, and nThaddaeus, and oSimon the Zealot,1 19 and pJudas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
