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.

13 ^aAnd he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. 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.

20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, ^q“He is out of his mind.”