Choosing and training church leaders

The twelve apostles

12One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. 13When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:

14Simon (whom he named Peter) and his brother Andrew,

James,

John,

Philip,

Bartholomew,

15Matthew,

Thomas,

James son of Alphaeus,

Simon who was called the Zealot,