Luke:6:12-16
rwp@Luke:6:12 @{He went out into the mountains to pray} (\exelthein auton eis to oros proseuxasthai\). Note \ex-\ where strkjv@Mark:3:13| has {goeth up} (\anabainei\). Luke alone has "to pray" as he so often notes the habit of prayer in Jesus. {He continued all night} (\n dianuktereun\). Periphrastic imperfect active. Here alone in the N.T., but common in the LXX and in late Greek writers. Medical writers used it of whole night vigils. {In prayer to God} (\en ti proseuchi tou theou\). Objective genitive \tou theou\. This phrase occurs nowhere else. \Proseuch\ does not mean "place of prayer" or synagogue as in strkjv@Acts:16:13|, but the actual prayer of Jesus to the Father all night long. He needed the Father's guidance now in the choice of the Apostles in the morning.
rwp@Luke:6:13 @{When it was day} (\hote egeneto hmera\). When day came, after the long night of prayer. {He chose from them twelve} (\eklexamenos ap' autn ddeka\). The same root (\leg\) was used for picking out, selecting and then for saying. There was a large group of "disciples" or "learners" whom he "called" to him (\prosephnsen\), and from among whom he chose (of himself, and for himself, indirect middle voice (\eklexamenos\). It was a crisis in the work of Christ. Jesus assumed full responsibility even for the choice of Judas who was not forced upon Jesus by the rest of the Twelve. "You did not choose me, but I chose you," (John:15:16|) where Jesus uses \exelexasthe\ and \exelexamn\ as here by Luke. {Whom also he named apostles} (\hous kai apostolous nomasen\). Songs:then Jesus gave the twelve chosen disciples this appellation. Aleph and B have these same words in strkjv@Mark:3:14| besides the support of a few of the best cursives, the Bohairic Coptic Version and the Greek margin of the Harclean Syriac. Westcott and Hort print them in their text in strkjv@Mark:3:14|, but it remains doubtful whether they were not brought into Mark from strkjv@Luke:6:13| where they are undoubtedly genuine. See strkjv@Matthew:10:2| where the connection with sending them out by twos in the third tour of Galilee. The word is derived from \apostell\, to send (Latin, _mitto_) and apostle is missionary, one sent. Jesus applies the term to himself (\apesteilas\, strkjv@John:17:3|) as does strkjv@Hebrews:3:1|. The word is applied to others, like Barnabas, besides these twelve including the Apostle Paul who is on a par with them in rank and authority, and even to mere messengers of the churches (2Corinthians:8:23|). But these twelve apostles stand apart from all others in that they were all chosen at once by Jesus himself "that they might be with him" (Mark:3:14|), to be trained by Jesus himself and to interpret him and his message to the world. In the nature of the case they could have no successors as they had to be personal witnesses to the life and resurrection of Jesus (Acts:1:22|). The selection of Matthias to succeed Judas cannot be called a mistake, but it automatically ceased. For discussion of the names and groups in the list see discussion on ¯Matthew:10:1-4; strkjv@Mark:3:14-19|.
rwp@Luke:6:16 @{Which was the traitor} (\hos egeneto prodots\). Who became traitor, more exactly, \egeneto\, not \n\. He gave no signs of treachery when chosen.
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