jesus pray to god before he choose the twelve apostles.

at that time Jesus go to the hills to pray and all night he prayed to god. when it was day, he called his disciples, then jesus select twelve from among them, and this is the apostles name: Simon jesus gave name Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, yakobus alfeus son, and Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and yudas Iscariot, who became a traitor.