Morning Bible Study: Luke 6:12-19

The Twelve Apostles

12 During those days he went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God. 

13 When daylight came, he summoned his disciples, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: 

14 Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; 

15 Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot; 

16 Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Teaching and Healing

17 After coming down with them, he stood on a level place with a large crowd of his disciples and a great number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. 

18 They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those tormented by unclean spirits were made well. 

19 The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.

Commentary

(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)

"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."