Luke 6:12-16
Chapter 6
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Jesus went out into the hills to pray, spending the whole night in prayer with God.
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When day arrived, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he called ‘apostles’:
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Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;
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Matthew and Thomas; James, son of Alpheus, and Simon, called the Zealot;
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Judas, son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who would later become the traitor.
Commentaries
The Twelve.
Jesus chooses the Twelve, but first, he spends the entire night in prayer. He makes his decision at a crucial moment in his ministry, just before the ‘Sermon on the Plain,’ which, although it lacks the content and scope of its counterpart in Matthew (the ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ Mt 5-7), still represents the life mission for those who want to follow him and spread his Gospel.