Crowds Follow Jesus^(A)

⁷ Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed.^(B)

Blessings and Woes^(A)

¹⁷ He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon,^(B)

²⁵ Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis,^[a] Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.^(A)

God’s Chosen Servant

¹⁵ Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill.^(A)

⁵³ So from that day on they plotted to take his life.^(A)

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.^(B) Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

⁵ But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee^(A) and has come all the way here.”

The Twelve Apostles^(A)

¹² One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.^(B)

³⁹ So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues^(A) and driving out demons.^(B)

²³ When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.^(A)

³² from the tribe of Naphtali,