Mark 3:13-19

New Century Version

Jesus Chooses His Twelve Apostles

¹³ Then Jesus went up on a mountain and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. ¹⁴ Jesus chose twelve and called them apostles.^[a] He wanted them to be with him, and he wanted to send them out to preach ¹⁵ and to have the authority to force demons out of people. ¹⁶ These are the twelve men he chose: Simon (Jesus named him Peter), ¹⁷ James and John, the sons of Zebedee (Jesus named them Boanerges, which means “Sons of Thunder”), ¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who later turned against Jesus.