Luke 6:12-19

12One day Jesus went up a mountain to pray. He remained there all night and he was praying to God.

13In the morning, he asked all his disciples to come to him. Then he chose 12 of them and he called them his apostles. These are their names:

14Simon (Jesus gave him the name ‘Peter’), Andrew (he was Simon's brother), James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

15Matthew, Thomas, James, the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot,

16Judas, son of James, Judas Iscariot, who later gave Jesus to his enemies.

17After Jesus had chosen these 12 men, they all came down the mountain. He stopped and he stood on a flat place. A large crowd of his disciples stood around him. There were also many people from Jerusalem, and from other towns of Judea, and from places on the coast near Tyre and Sidon.

18These people had all come to hear Jesus teach. Those people who were ill wanted him to make them well. He also made well those people who had bad spirits.

19All the people were trying to touch him, because he was using great power to make each person well.