Choosing the Twelve Apostles

6:12 Now43 it was during this time that Jesus44 went out to the mountain45 to pray, and he spent all night46 in prayer to God.47 6:13 When48 morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:49 6:14 Simon50 (whom he named Peter), and his brother Andrew; and James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,51 6:15 Matthew, Thomas,52 James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot,53 6:16 Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot,54 who became a traitor.