9. He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him.
10. For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.
11. The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”
12. He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
13. He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.
14. He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to proclaim,
15. and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
16. Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
17. Jacob the son of Zebedee; and Yochanan, the brother of Jacob, (whom he called Benei-Regesh, which means, Sons of Thunder);
18. Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; Jacob, the son of Halfai; Taddai; Simon the Zealot;
19. and Judah Iscariot, who also betrayed him.Then he came into a house.
20. The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
21. When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”
22. The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”
23. He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
24. If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.