Mark 3:7-19

Jesus Chooses His Twelve Apostles Mark 3:7-19: Jesus went to the shore of the lake with His disciples. A large crowd followed Him there. The people from many places heard of the things that Jesus was doing and they came to Him. He instructed the disciples to get a boat ready for Him because the crowd was pressing so against Him. Jesus healed many sick people and all that had diseases were trying to touch him. Even the evil spirits would fall to the ground and shout out, "You are the Son of God!" Jesus commanded the evil spirits to not to make Him known.

Jesus called some of His disciples up on a mountain with Him. There he chose twelve of them to be his apostles. He wanted them to be with Him and he wanted to send them out to preach. The Lord chose Simon He named him Peter. He also chose the sons of thunder, James and John. Other apostles were Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus and Simon. There was also Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed Jesus. The apostles were special men with special powers to do a special work for God.