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When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom.
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The Twelve Apostles
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
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When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:
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The Parable of the Sower
After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him,
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because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.
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And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her.
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Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases,
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Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, “Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here.”
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They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
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Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time
Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
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Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.
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so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Jesus Arrested
While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him,
