Crowds Clamor for Yeshua

⁷ Yeshua withdrew to the sea with His disciples, and a large crowd from the Galilee followed. From Judea, ⁸ and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon, a great number, hearing all He was doing, came to Him. ⁹ He told His disciples to have a small boat ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t mob Him.

¹⁰ For He had healed many, so that all those afflicted fell down before Him in order to touch Him. ¹¹ And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, would fall down before Him and cry out, “You are Ben-Elohim!” ¹² But Yeshua strictly ordered them not to make Him known.

Appointing the Twelve

¹³ Now He climbs up on the mountain and calls those He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. ¹⁴ He appointed twelve (whom He also named emissaries), so that they might be with Him and He might send them to proclaim the Good News, ¹⁵ and to have power to drive out demons. ¹⁶ And He appointed the Twelve: to Simon He gave the name Peter; ¹⁷ to Jacob and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, He gave the name Boanerges, which is Sons of Thunder; ¹⁸ and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, Jacob the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot; ^{[a] 19} and Judah from Kriot, who also betrayed Him.