Mark 3:6–19

6 And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians ⌊and began to conspire⌋b against him with regard to how they could destroy him.

Jesus Heals Crowds by the Sea

7 And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea,c 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⌋d 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.

The Selection of the Twelve Apostles

13 And he went up on the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted, and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve,e 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.f 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,g 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

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b	Literally “began to give counsel”; the imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive (“began to”)
c	That is, the Sea of Galilee
*	Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*	Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as causal
d	Literally “had suffering”
e	Some manuscripts add “whom he also named apostles”
f	Most Greek manuscripts omit the phrase “and he appointed the twelve”
g	Literally “the Cananean,” but according to BDAG 507 s.v., this term has no relation at all to the geographical terms for Cana or Canaan, but is derived from the Aramaic term for “enthusiast, zealot” (see Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13)