In the year King Uzziah died, I had a vision of the Lord sitting on a throne, exalted and high; the hem of his garment filled the temple. Above all this the Seraphs were in attendance: each one had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their bodies, and with two they flew. And they called out to one another, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; all of the earth is filled with his glory.” The door posts shook at voices of those who called, and the temple filled with smoke.
And I said: “Woe is me! I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, and yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!
Then one of the Seraphs flew to me, with a burning coal in his hand which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched it against my mouth and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips, your iniquity has been removed and your sin forgiven.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord say, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “ I am here, send me.”
And the Lord declared, “Go and tell this people: ‘Listen diligently, but do not understand; look and see, but do not perceive.’ Dull the hearts and minds of this people, stop up their ears, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and discern with their hearts, and return and be made whole.”
Then I asked, “How long, O Lord?” And he replied, “Until the cities are desolate and without inhabitants, and the houses are empty of people, and the earth lays in utter waste. Until the Lord has driven every person away, and the land itself lies forsaken.
Now brothers and sisters, I remind you of the gospel which I have preached to you before - the gospel which you also received, and in which you abide. It is through this good news that you are being saved, if you hold fast to what I proclaimed to you. Otherwise, your faith is in vain.
For I delivered to you, first and foremost, what I myself had received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised up on the third day according to the scriptures. That he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. Then he was seen by more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain with us until now, though some have “fallen asleep.
After that he was seen by James, then by all the apostles. And last of all, he was also seen by me, as to one untimely born. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, insomuch as I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace bestowed upon me has not been given in vain. On the contrary, I labored far more than all of them, though not I, but the grace of God which is with me. Therefore whether it was I or they, so we preach, and so you have come to faith.
Now it came to pass that as the crowd pressed in upon him to hear the word of God, Jesus, standing by Lake Gennesaret, saw two boats laying on the shore, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. And Jesus got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the Land. And Jesus sat down and
taught the multitude from out of the boat.
When he had finished speaking, Jesus said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch of fish. And Simon replied, “Master, we have worked hard all night but have caught nothing. Nevertheless at your word I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish so that their nets began to break. So they called to their partners who were in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the ships, so that they began to sunk.
When Simon Peter saw this, fell down at Jesus’ feet, saying, “Go away from me; for I am a sinful man, Lord!” For he was astonished, as were all who were with him, at the haul of fish they had caught. And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Fear not; from this time on you will catch people.
And when they had landed their boats on the shore, they left everything behind to go in the same way with Jesus.
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