Mark 3:16

καὶ ἐποίησεν τ. δ., and He appointed as the Twelve the following persons, the twelve names mentioned being the object of ἐποίησε, and τοὺς δ. being in apposition. Πέτρον is the first name, but it comes in very awkwardly as the object of the verb ἐπέθηκε. We must take the grammar as it stands, content that we know, in spite of crude construction, what is meant. Fritzsche (after Beza, Erasmus, etc.) seeks to rectify the construction by prefixing, on slender critical authority, πρῶτον Σίμωνα, then bracketing as a parenthesis καὶ ἐπέθηκε … Πέτρον = first Simon (and He gave to Simon the name Peter).