12 But Jesus gave the spirits a strong warning not to tell anyone who he was.
13 Then Jesus went up on a hill and invited those he wanted to go with him. So they joined him there.
14 And he chose twelve men and called them apostles. He wanted these twelve men to be with him, and he wanted to send them to other places to tell people God’s message.
15 He also wanted them to have the power to force demons out of people.
16 These are the names of the twelve men Jesus chose: Simon (the one Jesus named Peter),
17 James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee (the ones Jesus named Boanerges, which means “Sons of Thunder”),
18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon, the Zealot,