16 These are the twelve he chose:

Simon (whom he named Peter),
17 James and John (the sons of Zebedee, but Jesus nicknamed them “Sons of Thunder”[a]),
18 Andrew,
Philip,
Bartholomew,
Matthew,
Thomas,
James (son of Alphaeus),
Thaddaeus,
Simon (the zealot[b]),

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Footnotes

  1. 3:17 Greek whom he named Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder.
  2. 3:18 Greek the Cananean, an Aramaic term for Jewish nationalists.

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