5. Looking around at them with anger, deeply grieved at their unyielding hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he did, and his hand was made healthy.
6. At that, the Pharisees got together with the supporters of Herod to plan how to destroy Jesus.
7. Jesus left with his disciples and went to the lake. A large crowd followed him because they had heard what he was doing. They were from Galilee,
8. Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the area surrounding Tyre and Sidon.
9. Jesus told his disciples to get a small boat ready for him so the crowd wouldn’t crush him.
10. He had healed so many people that everyone who was sick pushed forward so that they could touch him.
11. Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down at his feet and shouted, "You are God’s Son!"
12. But he strictly ordered them not to reveal who he was.
13. Jesus went up on a mountain and called those he wanted, and they came to him.
14. He appointed twelve and called them apostles. He appointed them to be with him, to be sent out to preach,
15. and to have authority to throw out demons.
16. He appointed twelve: Peter, a name he gave Simon;
17. James and John, Zebedee’s sons, whom he nicknamed Boanerges, which means "sons of Thunder";
18. and Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, Alphaeus’ son; Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean;
19. and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.
20. Jesus entered a house. A crowd gathered again so that it was impossible for him and his followers even to eat.
21. When his family heard what was happening, they came to take control of him. They were saying, "He’s out of his mind!"
22. The legal experts came down from Jerusalem. Over and over they charged, "He’s possessed by Beelzebul. He throws out demons with the authority of the ruler of demons."