⁴³ but he said to them, ^(A)“I must ^(B)preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.” ⁴⁴ And he was preaching ^(C)in the synagogues of Judea.^[a]

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

5 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by ^(D)the lake of Gennesaret, ^2 (E)and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were ^(F)washing their nets. ³ Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And ^(G)he sat down and taught the people from the boat. ⁴ And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ^(H)“Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” ⁵ And Simon answered, “Master, ^(I)we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” ⁶ And when they had done this, ^(J)they enclosed a large number of fish, and ^(K)their nets were breaking. ⁷ They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. ^(L)And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. ⁸ But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, ^(M)“Depart from me, for ^(N)I am a sinful man, O Lord.” ⁹ For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, ¹⁰ and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”^{[b] 11} And when they had brought their boats to land, ^(O)they left everything and followed him.

Him Whom They Have Pierced

¹⁰ “And ^(A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^(B)pleas for mercy, so that, ^(C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^(D)they shall mourn for him, ^(E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. ^11 (F)On that day ^(G)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great ^(H)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. ¹² The land shall mourn, ^(I)each family^[a] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^(J)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹³ the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of ^(K)the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹⁴ and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

13 ^(L)“On that day there shall be ^(M)a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Idolatry Cut Off

² “And ^(N)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, ^(O)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that ^(P)they shall be remembered no more. And also ^(Q)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. ³ And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ^(R)‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

⁴ “On that day ^(S)every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, ⁵ but he will say, ^(T)‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’^{[b] 6} And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’^[c] he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Struck

The Coming Day of the Lord

14 Behold, ^(AB)a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. ² For ^(AC)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and ^(AD)the city shall be taken ^(AE)and the houses plundered ^(AF)and the women raped. ^(AG)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. ^3 (AH)Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. ^4 (AI)On that day his feet shall stand ^(AJ)on ^(AK)the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and ^(AL)the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by ^(AM)a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. ⁵ And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from ^(AN)the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.^[d]

^6 (AO)On that day ^(AP)there shall be ^(AQ)no light, cold, or frost.^{[e] 7 (AR)}And there shall be a unique^[f] day, ^(AS)which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but ^(AT)at evening time there shall be light.

^8 (AU)On that day ^(AV)living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to ^(AW)the eastern sea^[g] and half of them to ^(AX)the western sea.^{[h] (AY)}It shall continue in summer as in winter.

⁹ And ^(AZ)the Lord will be king over all the earth. ^(BA)On that day the Lord will be ^(BB)one and ^(BC)his name one.

^10 (BD)The whole land shall be turned into a plain from ^(BE)Geba to ^(BF)Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But ^(BG)Jerusalem shall remain aloft ^(BH)on its site from ^(BI)the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to ^(BJ)the Corner Gate, and from ^(BK)the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. ¹¹ And it shall be inhabited, for ^(BL)there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.^{[i] (BM)}Jerusalem shall dwell in security.