How did Jesus choose his friends?

Answer 1

He choose them all at diffrent times and locations. I think that's something your going to either have to look up in The Bible or Google it :)

Answer:

Jesus didn't choose them... His Father chose them for Him:

"I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest Me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them Me..." (John 17:6).

"...Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given Me, that they may be as one, as we are... I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest Me, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled." (verses 11-12)

Like the chosen of God who went before... God knew the disciples before the foundation of the world.

"...Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee..." (Jer.1:5).

The disciples were among the "predestinated" of God.

"...them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brethren.

"Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified." (Rom.8:28-30)

Like Jeremiah, above, however, who didn't know that He was chosen and called until the "timing" of it was right ["...to whom the Word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah..." - Jer.1:2]... so did the disciples find out about their calling only when it was their time.

Like the rest of Judaea in those days, who watched and followed the works of John the Baptist with great interest and anticipation of his revealing the Messiah to them, according to the prophecy:

"...Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children..." (Malachi 4:6).

When John revealed Jesus' identity to Peter's brother, Andrew, who was one of his own disciples at the time... the coming together of Jesus and His disciples began:

"...looking upon Jesus as He walked, he [John] saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned, and saw them following... they came and saw where He dwelt, and abode with Him that day..." (John 1:36-39).

"...One of the two which heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus..." (verses 40-42).

Everyone in Judaea was looking around them, wondering which one of them was the Messiah. Then one day... when the time was right... John pointed Him out.

The disciples were "chosen" before the foundation of the world by the Father in heaven.

But Jesus didn't let them know it until after He had succeeded in defeating Satan in the famed "temptation" account, which qualified Him as "King" to depose Satan's authority on earth... and not until John the Baptist was put in prison.

Timing was everything. Jesus' ministry didn't begin until those two things occurred. He could not call His disciples into a ministry that didn't exist. Satan had to be deposed as the god of this world for the new "King" and His "Kingdom" to be declared... and John the Baptist's ministry had to end:

"...He must increase, but I must decrease." (John 3:30)

"...the Spirit driveth Him into the wilderness. And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto Him. Now after that John was put into prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God..." (Mark 1:12-14).

That was the time when Jesus... who was now preaching the Kingdom of God, and was known to them as the long-anticipated Messiah... began to approach them and command them to "follow" Him.

"...And they straightway left their nets, and followed Him." (Matt.4:20)

Answer 2

Jesus chose his apostles by people who would love him and be changed by his love for them. He only chose people who even had failure in their lives.

Answer 3

The apostles were chosen by Jesus to help him and to spread the word of god all over the world.

Answer 4

Jesus chose simple fishermen as disciples, Matthew was a tax collector.