Mark 3:13-19

The Selection of the Twelve Apostles

13 And he went up on the mountain and summoned [those] whom he wanted, and they came to him.

14 And he appointed twelve, so that they would be with him and so that he could send them out to preach

15 and to have authority to expel demons.

16 And he appointed the twelve. And to Simon he gave the name Peter,

17 and James the [son] of Zebedee and John the brother of James (and he gave to them the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder"),

18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,

19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts add "whom he also named apostles"
• [b]. Most Greek manuscripts omit the phrase "and he appointed the twelve"
• [c]. Literally "the Cananean," but according to BDAG 507 s.v., this term has no relation at all to the geographical terms for Cana or Canaan, but is derived from the Aramaic term for "enthusiast, zealot" (see Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13)