Mark 3:7-19a
Jesus departed with his disciples to the lake, and a great
multitude from Galilee followed him; hearing all that he was doing, they came
to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and
the region around Tyre and Sidon. He told his disciples to have a boat ready
for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him; for he had
cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted,
‘You are the Son of God!’ But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
He went up the
mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. And he
appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent
out to proclaim the message, and to have authority to cast out demons. So he
appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James son of
Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that
is, Sons of Thunder); and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and
Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and
Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
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Disciples are those who follow Jesus. Some of the disciples are also now become apostles - which means those who are sent.
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Disciples are those who follow Jesus. Some of the disciples are also now become apostles - which means those who are sent.
Yes, here we begin to see a distinction between "all the followers of Jesus" and a chosen few. Maybe a 3-way distinction between all the followers, "those whom he wanted", and the Twelve. We never hear much about those followers outside the Twelve.
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