Large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Ten Towns, from Jerusalem, Judea, and the land on the other side of the Jordan.

The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the crowd stood on the shore.

Again Jesus began to teach beside Lake Galilee. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it. The boat was out in the water, and the crowd stood on the shore at the water's edge.

Jesus left there and went along by Lake Galilee. He climbed a hill and sat down.

Then Jesus went up a hill and called to himself the men he wanted. They came to him,

Then Jesus went home. Again such a large crowd gathered that Jesus and his disciples had no time to eat.

A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing the sick.

Jesus went up a hill and sat down with his disciples.

As Jesus walked along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw two brothers who were fishermen, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew, catching fish in the lake with a net.

At once they left their nets and went with him.

and at once they left the boat and their father, and went with him.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee;

Simon the Patriot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

When day came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he named apostles:

Matthew and Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon (who was called the Patriot),