12. In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
13. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles:
14. Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
15. Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot,
16. and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
17. And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
18. came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured.
19. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.
20. And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said:“Blessed are you who are poor,for the kingdom of God is yours.
21. Blessed are you who are now hungry,for you will be satisfied.Blessed are you who are now weeping,for you will laugh.
22. Blessed are you when people hate you,and when they exclude and insult you,and denounce your name as evilon account of the Son of Man.
23. Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.