Jesus chose only 12 Apostles.

Jesus chose 12 Apostles.

And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, (Mark 3:14)

After Judas died the remaining 11 Apostles chose Judas’s replacement:

And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. (Act 1:26)

There are only 12 Apostles of Jesus recognized in Heaven:

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Revelation 21:14)

            Jesus commended the Church at Ephesus for not listening to people who said they were Apostles but weren’t:

I know your works, and your labour, and your patience, and how you cannot bear them which are evil: and you have tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars: (Revelation 2:2)

            Who claimed to the Ephesians to be an Apostle but was not:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: (Ephesians 1:1)

            Paul did not even qualify as a potential apostle:

Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection. (Act 1:21-22)