I retained the Greek words epoiēsen and apostolous to signal a kind of pause button on the Lukan account-it’s the only one that invokes these terms and it departs from the others in how it presents these twelve disciples in a particular Pauline light. And of them he epoiēsen twelve, whom he also named apostolous, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and (to have/gave them) power to heal all manner of sicknesses and all manner of disease, and to cast out devils. And when it was day, he calleth unto him his disciples whom he would, and they came unto him. An amalgamated text of the event that started the “Commissioning of the Twelve” sequence might go like this:Īnd it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
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