13 When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:
13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:
13 The next day he summoned his disciples; from them he selected twelve he designated as apostles:
13 And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles:
13 At daybreak he called together all of his disciples and chose twelve of them to be apostles. Here are their names:
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 6:13
Commentary on Luke 6:12-19
(Read Luke 6:12-19)
We often think one half hour a great deal to spend in meditation and secret prayer, but Christ was whole nights engaged in these duties. In serving God, our great care should be not to lose time, but to make the end of one good duty the beginning of another. The twelve apostles are here named; never were men so privileged, yet one of them had a devil, and proved a traitor. Those who have not faithful preaching near them, had better travel far than be without it. It is indeed worth while to go a great way to hear the word of Christ, and to go out of the way of other business for it. They came to be cured by him, and he healed them. There is a fulness of grace in Christ, and healing virtue in him, ready to go out from him, that is enough for all, enough for each. Men regard the diseases of the body as greater evils than those of their souls; but the Scripture teaches us differently.