52. The Choice of the Twelve Apostles. Mk. 3:13–19; Lk. 6:17–19

When it was day, the Lord called His disciples and chose from them twelve, whom He also named Apostles, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach and to have authority to heal diseases and to cast out demons: Simon, whom He named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom He gave the name Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder,” Philip and Bartholomew (or Nathanael), Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, Judas the son of James (also called Thaddaeus, or Lebbaeus, surnamed Thaddaeus) and Judas Iscariot, who later became a traitor and betrayed Him.