Mark 3:6-19
3:6 So
the Pharisees
went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians,
as to how they could assassinate
him.
Crowds by the Sea
3:7 Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,
3:8 Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.
3:9 Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.
3:10 For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.
3:11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”
3:12 But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
Appointing the Twelve Apostles
3:13 Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him.
3:14 He appointed twelve (whom he named apostles), so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach
3:15 and to have authority to cast out demons.
3:16 He appointed twelve: To Simon he gave the name Peter;
3:17 to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”);
3:18 and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,
3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.