“and He appointed twelve, that they may be with Him, and that He may send them forth to preach,”— Mark 3:14 (LSV)
11and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing Him, were falling down before Him, and were crying, saying, “You are the Son of God”;
12and many times He was charging them that they might not make Him apparent.
13And He goes up to the mountain, and calls near whom He willed, and they went away to Him;
14and He appointed twelve, that they may be with Him, and that He may send them forth to preach,
15and to have power to heal the sicknesses, and to cast out the demons.
16And He put on Simon the name Peter;
17and James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and He put on them names—Boanerges, that is, “Sons of thunder”;