5. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
6. The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.
7. Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people [followed] from Galilee and from Judea.
8. Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.
9. He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.
10. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.
11. And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.”
12. He warned them sternly not to make him known.
13. He went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him.
14. He appointed twelve [whom he also named apostles] that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach
15. and to have authority to drive out demons:
16. [he appointed the twelve:] Simon, whom he named Peter;