¹² Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say,

¹⁵ “Then I will give you ^(I)shepherds ^[d]after My own heart, who will ^(J)feed you knowledge and understanding. ¹⁶ And it shall be in those days when you become numerous and are fruitful in the land,” declares the Lord, “they will ^(K)no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor miss it, nor will it be made again. ¹⁷ At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The ^(L)Throne of the Lord,’ and ^(M)all the nations will assemble at it, at Jerusalem, for the ^(N)name of the Lord; and they will no longer ^(O)follow the stubbornness of their evil heart. ^18 (P)In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together ^(Q)from the land of the north to the ^(R)land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.

Choosing the Twelve

¹² Now it was ^[a]at this time that He went off to ^(A)the mountain to ^(B)pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer with God. ¹³ And when day came, ^(C)He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as ^(D)apostles: ¹⁴ Simon, whom He also named Peter, and his brother Andrew; and ^[b]James and John; and Philip and Bartholomew; ¹⁵ and ^(E)Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot; ¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

¹⁷ And then Jesus ^(F)came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was ^(G)a large crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the coastal region of ^(H)Tyre and Sidon, ¹⁸ who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled by unclean spirits were being cured. ¹⁹ And all the ^[c]people were trying to ^(I)touch Him, because ^(J)power was coming from Him and healing them all.