text: Where in the Gospels did Jesus anoint the Twelve to be priests?  No place.  What Jesus DID DO at the Last Supper, was get on his knees and wash their feet.  He told them to do so for others as he had done.  Jesus was of the Tribe of Judah and the House of David.  He was not a Levite nor of the House of Aaron.  Jesus called himself the Good Shepherd, the Way, the Truth and the Life.  He permitted himself to be called Rabbi/Teacher.  But he never called himself a Priest.  Nor did he ordain his followers as such.
  
  If one studies early Church history---one sees that the people elected/chose their bishops, their popes, and their presbyters for the liturgy.  This lasted until just after the Edict of Milan in 311 AD.  When the church became acceptable to the Roman emperor [Constantine] and a state religion, the liturgy was moved out of the home, into a church---and a clergy [male] was developed.