Mark 3:13-19

13Jesus went up a mountain. He chose some men and he asked them to go there with him. So they met together with him there.

14He chose a group of 12 men. He called them his apostles. He wanted them to be with him. And he would send them to teach people about God.

15He gave these men authority to cause bad spirits to leave people.

16These are the names of the 12 apostles: Simon, (Jesus called him Peter).

17James and John who were the sons of Zebedee. Jesus called them ‘Boanerges’. It means ‘men who are like thunder’.

18Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, who was the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot

19and Judas Iscariot, who later gave Jesus to his enemies.