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

¹³ Then he went up the hillside and summoned the men he wanted, and they went to him. ¹⁴ He appointed twelve to be with him, also that he might despatch them to preach ¹⁵ with the power of casting out daemons;

¹⁶ there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, ¹⁷ James the son of Zebedaeus and John the brother of James (he surnamed them Boanerges, or "Sons of thunder"), ¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the zealot, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him. Then they went indoors,

¹² It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God, ¹³ and when day broke he summoned his disciples, choosing twelve of them, to whom he gave the name of 'apostles':

¹⁴ Simon (to whom he gave the name of Peter), Andrew his brother, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, ¹⁵ Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon (who was called 'the Zealot'), ¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot (who turned traitor).