Luke 6:12-19

Jesus chooses apostles

12 During that time, Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night long.

13 At daybreak, he called together his disciples. He chose twelve of them whom he called apostles:

14 Simon, whom he named Peter; his brother Andrew; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

15 Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called a zealot;

16 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Jesus’ popularity increases

17 Jesus came down from the mountain with them and stood on a large area of level ground. A great company of his disciples and a huge crowd of people from all around Judea and Jerusalem and the area around Tyre and Sidon joined him there.

18 They came to hear him and to be healed from their diseases, and those bothered by unclean spirits were healed.

19 The whole crowd wanted to touch him, because power was going out from him and he was healing everyone.