After Jesus recruited as disciples John, the son of Zebedee, and Andrew, (with help from John the Baptist, whose disciples they had first been), Andrew recruited his bother Simon Peter, and John's brother James was quickly added. To this initial core of four disciples, eight more were added to become the Twelve, ordained as the inner circle, the ones to whom Jesus would entrust the full disclosure of the Gospel of the Kingdom and, later on, the establishment of his church.