giving them authority to cast out demons.
News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if they were demon possessed or epileptic or paralyzed—he healed them all.
Then he appointed twelve of them and called them his apostles. They were to accompany him, and he would send them out to preach,
These are the twelve he chose: Simon (whom he named Peter),
