Mark 3:13-19 - The Selection Of The Twelve Apostles

¹³ And he goes up into the mountain, and calls whom he himself would, and they went to him. ¹⁴ And he appointed twelve that they might be with him, and that he might send them to preach, ¹⁵ and to have power to heal diseases, and to cast out demons.

¹⁶ And he gave to Simon the surname of Peter; ¹⁷ and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he gave them the surname of Boanerges, that is, Sons of thunder; ¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariote, who also delivered him up. And they come to the house.

¹² And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. ¹³ And when it was day he called his disciples, and having chosen out twelve from them, whom also he named apostles:

¹⁴ Simon, to whom also he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew, ¹⁵ and Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon who was called Zealot, ¹⁶ and Judas brother of James, and Judas Iscariote, who was also his betrayer;