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The Book of Jesus Chapter Four: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
The Crowds Follow Jesus
NARRATOR.
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake side with a great crowd from Galilee following him. He spoke to his disciples and asked
them to have a boat standing by for him in the eventuality that the crowds following him would get out of control and converge on
him in mass. For he had cured so many, that all who were afflicted in any way were pressing forward to touch him. And the unclean
spirits when they saw him, would fall down before him and shout; "You are the Son of God!" But he strongly warned them that they
should not make him known.
His fame had spread throughout Syria. Those who were suffering from various diseases and painful conditions; the possessed,
epileptics, the paralyzed, were all brought to him, and he cured them. Great numbers who had heard of all he was doing also came to
him from Judaea, Jerusalem, Idumaea, Transjordania, the Decapolis, and the region of Tyre and Sidon.
Matthew 4:24,25, Mark 3:7-12
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The Appointment of the Twelve
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NARRATOR.
Seeing the crowds, he went out and up into the mountain to pray and spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came, he
summoned his disciples to him and picked out twelve of them and called them apostles. They were to be his companions and would
be sent out to preach and would have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils.
The first Simon [whom he gave the name Peter] and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, he called
them 'Boanerges' or 'The sons of thunder'; Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew the tax collector, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus,
Simon the Zealot, Thaddaeus [who was also known as Judas the son of James] and Judas Iscariot, the man who became a traitor and
was to betray him.
Matthew 5:1...,10:2-4; Mark 3:13-19; Luke 6:12-16
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The Crowds
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NARRATOR.
He then came down with them and stopped at a large level plain where there was a large gathering of his disciples and a great crowd
of people from all parts of Judaea, Jerusalem and from the coastal regions of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be
cured of their diseases. And people who were tormented by unclean spirits were also healed. Everyone in the crowd was trying to
touch him, for there was power that went out from him that cured them all.
Luke 6: 17-19
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