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June 7, 2009
At the outset of Jesus’ public ministry, He called twelve men to be His disciples. He did not select them based on their credentials or skills but used ordinary men to bring the message of redemption to a lost world. The intimate friendship that the disciples had with Jesus was the foundation for their service to Him. Alistair Begg reminds us that Christ still calls men and women to Himself so that they can tell others about Him.
7lJesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ma great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8and Jerusalem and nIdumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around oTyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 9And he told his disciples to phave a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they qcrush him, 10for rhe had healed many, so that all who had sdiseases pressed around him tto touch him. 11uAnd whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they vfell down before him and cried out, “You are wthe Son of God.” 12And xhe strictly ordered them not to make him known.
13yAnd he went up on the mountain and called to him those zwhom he desired, and they came to him. 14yAnd he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach 15yand have authority to cast out demons. 16He appointed the twelve: aSimon (to whom bhe gave the name Peter); 17cJames the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and dMatthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,2 19and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
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