Mark 3:13-19

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Jesus Chooses His Twelve Apostles^(A)

¹³ Then Jesus went up ·on a mountain [to the hills] and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. ¹⁴ Jesus ·chose [appointed] twelve [^Cparalleling the twelve tribes of Israel] and called them apostles^[a] [^C“apostle” means a messenger, or someone sent with a commission]. He wanted them to be with him, and he wanted to send them out to preach ¹⁵ and to have the authority to ·force [drive; cast] demons out of people. ¹⁶ These are the twelve he ·chose [appointed]: Simon (Jesus named him Peter), ¹⁷ James and John, the sons of Zebedee (Jesus named them Boanerges, which [^Cin Aramaic] means “Sons of Thunder”), ¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot [^Ceither religiously zealous, or a (former) member of the revolutionary movement known as Zealots], ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot [^CIscariot probably means “man of Kerioth”], who later ·turned against [betrayed] Jesus.