Mark 3:13-19
Jesus Appoints the Twelve
13And He *went up on athe mountain and *bsummoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. 14And He appointed twelve 1(whom He also named apostles) to be with Him and to send them out to preach, 15and to have authority to cast out the demons. 16And He appointed the twelve: aSimon (to whom He gave the name Peter), 17and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”); 18and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the 1Zealot; 19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.