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Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach,
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and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
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Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter;
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James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom He gave the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder";
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Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite;
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and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. And they went into a house.
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Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
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But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, "He is out of His mind."
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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebub," and, "By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons."
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So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?
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If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.