THE APOSTLES CALLED
AND it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain
to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was
day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve,
whom also he named apostles; Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and
Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and
Thomas, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon called Zelotes, and Judas
the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
[Illustration: THE MIRACULOUS DRAFT OF FISHES, BY RAPHAEL
IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON]
And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of
his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judæa and
Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear
him, and to be healed of their diseases; and they that were vexed with
unclean spirits: and they were healed. And the whole multitude sought
to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.