¹² Go, proclaim this message toward the north:^(A)

¹⁴ “Return,^(J) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.^(K) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion. ¹⁵ Then I will give you shepherds^(L) after my own heart,^(M) who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. ¹⁶ In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark^(N) of the covenant of the Lord.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered;^(O) it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. ¹⁷ At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne^(P) of the Lord, and all nations^(Q) will gather in Jerusalem to honor^(R) the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.^{(S) 18} In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel,^(T) and together^(U) they will come from a northern^(V) land to the land^(W) I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.

The Twelve Apostles^(A)

¹² One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.^{(B) 13} When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:^{(C) 14} Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, ¹⁵ Matthew,^(D) Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, ¹⁶ Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Blessings and Woes^(E)

¹⁷ He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon,^{(F) 18} who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, ¹⁹ and the people all tried to touch him,^(G) because power was coming from him and healing them all.^(H)