Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.

And passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

And Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

And Simon and those who were with him followed after him;

And he appointed the Twelve. And to Simon he gave the name Peter;

and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Are not his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard?very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?

And they compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.