4. And he said to them, “Is it permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.
5. And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
6. And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians and began to conspire against him with regard to how they could destroy him.
7. And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd from Galilee followed him. And from Judea
8. and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him because they heard all that he was doing.
9. And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him.
10. For he had healed many, so that all those who were suffering from diseases pressed about him in order that they could touch him.
11. And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, “You are the Son of God!”
12. And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known.
13. And he went up on the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted, and they came to him.
14. And he appointed twelve, so that they would be with him and so that he could send them out to preach
15. and to have authority to expel demons.
16. And he appointed the twelve. And to Simon he gave the name Peter,
17. and James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (and he gave to them the name Boanerges, that is, “Sons of Thunder”),
18. and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,