8and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon -- a great multitude -- having heard how great things he was doing, came unto him.
9And he said to his disciples that a little boat may wait on him, because of the multitude, that they may not press upon him,
10for he did heal many, so that they threw themselves on him, in order to touch him -- as many as had plagues;
11and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying -- `Thou art the Son of God;`
12and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest.
13And he goeth up to the mountain, and doth call near whom he willed, and they went away to him;
14and he appointed twelve, that they may be with him, and that he may send them forth to preach,