| And smoking flax shall he not quench, | Till he send forth judgement unto victory. |21 And in his name shall the Gentiles hope. [Footnote 1: Or, _through_.] [Footnote 2: Or, _all the things that he did_.] [Footnote 3: Gr. _scourges_.] [Footnote 4: Gr. _fell_.] [Footnote a: Note the wide territory from which the crowds now come, from Idumea in the south to Phoenicia in the north and from Perea in the east.] [Footnote b: Isaiah 42:1-4.] § 53. AFTER A NIGHT OF PRAYER, JESUS SELECTS TWELVE APOSTLES Mark 3:13-19 |Luke 6:12-16 | 13 And he goeth up into the |12 And it came to pass in these mountain, and calleth unto him | days, that he went out into the whom he himself would: and they| mountain to pray; and he 14 went unto him. And he appointed| continued all night in prayer twelve[1], that they might be |13 to God. And when it was day, with him, and that he might | he called his disciples: and he 15 send them forth to preach, and | chose from them twelve, whom to have authority to cast out | also he names apostles;[a] 16 [2]devils; [3]and Simon he |14 Simon, whom he also named 17 surnamed Peter; and James the | Peter, and Andrew his brother, _son_ of Zebedee, and John the | and James and John, and Philip brother of James; and them he | and Bartholomew, surnamed Boanerges, which is, | 18 Sons of thunder: and Andrew, | and Philip, and Bartholomew, |15 and Matthew and Matthew, and Thomas, and | and Thomas, and James _the son_ James the _son_ of Alphæus, and| of Alphæus, and Simon which was Thaddæus, and Simon the |16 called the Zealot, and Judas, 19 [4]Cananæan, and Judas | _the [5]son_ of James, and Iscariot, which also betrayed | Judas Iscariot, which was the him. | traitor. [Footnote 1: Some ancient authorities add _whom also he named apostles_. See Luke 6:13.] [Footnote 2: Gr. _demons_.] [Footnote 3: Some ancient authorities insert _and he appointed twelve_.] [Footnote 4: Or, _Zealot_. See Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13.] [Footnote 5: Or, brother. See Jude 1.] [Footnote a: Matthew postpones giving the names of the Twelve till they are sent out to preach in Galilee (Matt. 10:1-4. § 70). There is a fourth list in Acts 1:13. See the four compared in note at the end of this volume, note 8.] § 54. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. PRIVILEGES AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE MESSIANIC REIGN. CHRIST'S STANDARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS _Matthew, chapters 5-7. Luke 6:17-49._[a] A level place on a mountain, not far from Capernaum