6. Then the Pharisees went out and immediately held a consultation with the Herodians against Him, how they might [devise some means to] put Him to death.
7. And Jesus retired with His disciples to the lake, and a great throng from Galilee followed Him. Also from Judea
8. And from Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon–a vast multitude, hearing all the many things that He was doing, came to Him.
9. And He told His disciples to have a little boat in [constant] readiness for Him because of the crowd, lest they press hard upon Him and crush Him.
10. For He had healed so many that all who had distressing bodily diseases kept falling upon Him and pressing upon Him in order that they might touch Him.
11. And the spirits, the unclean ones, as often as they might see Him, fell down before Him and kept screaming out, You are the Son of God!
12. And He charged them strictly and severely under penalty again and again that they should not make Him known.
13. And He went up on the hillside and called to Him [for Himself] those whom He wanted and chose, and they came to Him.
14. And He appointed twelve to continue to be with Him, and that He might send them out to preach [as apostles or special messengers]
15. And to have authority and power to heal the sick and to drive out demons:
16. [They were] Simon, and He surnamed [him] Peter;
17. James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, and He surnamed them Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder;
18. And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew (Nathaniel), and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus (Judas, not Iscariot), and Simon the Cananaean [also called Zelotes],
19. And Judas Iscariot, he who betrayed Him.
20. Then He went to a house [probably Peter's], but a throng came together again, so that Jesus and His disciples could not even take food.
21. And when those who belonged to Him (His kinsmen) heard it, they went out to take Him by force, for they kept saying, He is out of His mind (beside Himself, deranged)!
22. And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebub, and, By [the help of] the prince of demons He is casting out demons.