Bible Verses About Apostles

As Yeshua walked by Lake Kinneret, he saw two brothers who were fishermen -- Shim`on, known as Kefa, and his brother Andrew -- throwing their net into the lake.

Yeshua said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men!"

At once they left their nets and went with him.

Going on from there, he saw two other brothers -- Ya'akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan his brother -- in the boat with their father Zavdai, repairing their nets; and he called them.

At once they left the boat and their father and went with Yeshua.

So they came and roused him, saying, "Sir! Help! We're about to die!"

He said to them, "Why are you afraid? So little trust you have!" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and there was a dead calm.

The men were astounded. They asked, "What kind of man is this, that even the winds and sea obey him?"

As Yeshua passed on from there he spotted a tax-collector named Mattityahu sitting in his collection booth. He said to him, "Follow me!" and he got up and followed him.

WhileYeshua was in the house eating, many tax-collectors and sinners came and joined him and his talmidim at the meal.

These are the names of the twelve emissaries: First, Shim`on, called Kefa, and Andrew his brother, Ya`akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan his brother,

Philip and Bar-Talmai, T'oma and Mattityahu the tax-collector, Ya`akov Bar-Halfai and Taddai,

Shim`on the Zealot, and Y'hudah from K'riot, who betrayed him.

But Yeshua, aware of this, said, "Such little trust you have! Why are you talking with each other about not having bread?

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you filled?

Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets you filled?

How can you possibly think I was talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim!"

Then they understood -- they were to guard themselves not from yeast for bread but from the teaching of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim.

"Shim`on Bar-Yochanan," Yeshua said to him, "how blessed you are! For no human being revealed this to you, no, it was my Father in heaven.

I also tell you this: you are Kefa," [which means `Rock,'] "and on this rock I will build my Community, and the gates of Sh'ol will not overcome it.

I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven."

From that time on, Yeshua began making it clear to his talmidim that he had to go to Yerushalayim and endure much suffering at the hands of the elders, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and that he had to be put to death; but that on the third day, he had to be raised to life.

Kefa took him aside and began rebuking him, "Heaven be merciful, Lord! By no means will this happen to you!"

Then Zavdai's sons came to Yeshua with their mother. She bowed down, begging a favor from him.

He said to her, "What do you want?" She replied, "Promise that when you become king, these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left."