11. Some people had evil spirits inside them. When the evil spirits saw Jesus, they bowed before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!”
12. But Jesus gave the spirits a strong warning not to tell anyone who he was.
13. Then Jesus went up on a hill and invited those he wanted to go with him. So they joined him there.
14. And he chose twelve men and called them apostles. He wanted these twelve men to be with him, and he wanted to send them to other places to tell people God’s message.
15. He also wanted them to have the power to force demons out of people.
16. These are the names of the twelve men Jesus chose: Simon (the one Jesus named Peter),
17. James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee (the ones Jesus named Boanerges, which means “Sons of Thunder”),
18. Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon, the Zealot,
19. Judas Iscariot (the one who handed Jesus over to his enemies).
20. Then Jesus went home, but again a large crowd gathered there. There were so many people that he and his followers could not eat.
21. His family heard about all these things. They went to get him because people said he was crazy.
22. And the teachers of the law from Jerusalem said, “Satan is living inside him! He uses power from the ruler of demons to force demons out of people.”