¹²Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God. ¹³And when day came, he summoned his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he also named apostles: ¹⁴Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, ¹⁵and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, ¹⁶and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

The Sermon on the Plain: The Beatitudes

¹⁷And he came down with them and^* stood on a level place, and a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all of Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, ¹⁸who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, and those who were troubled by unclean spirits were cured. ¹⁹And the whole crowd was seeking to touch him, because power was going out from him and healing them all.

²⁰And he lifted up his eyes to his disciples and^* said,

“Blessed are the poor,

because yours is the kingdom of God.

Read in Logos

Footnotes

*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came down”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“lifted up”) has been translated as a finite verb