“He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach”
Mark 3:14 (WEB)
Context Reading
12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. 13He went up into the mountain and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. 14He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach 15and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 16Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);