Study Desk

"You yourselves give them something to eat," Jesus answered. They asked, "Do you want us to go and spend two hundred silver coins on bread in order to feed them?"

And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.

His answer was, "Elijah is indeed coming first in order to get everything ready. Yet why do the Scriptures say that the Son of Man will suffer much and be rejected?

For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear. They will perform miracles and wonders in order to deceive even God's chosen people, if possible.

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Jesus to them.

The chief priests and the whole Council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they could not find any.

The seeds that fell along the path stand for those who hear; but the Devil comes and takes the message away from their hearts in order to keep them from believing and being saved.

"The man was made king and came back. At once he ordered his servants to appear before him, in order to find out how much they had earned.

"Teacher," they asked, "when will this be? And what will happen in order to show that the time has come for it to take place?"

I did not know who he would be, but I came baptizing with water in order to make him known to the people of Israel."

Yet you are not willing to come to me in order to have life.

Jesus knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king by force; so he went off again to the hills by himself.

So they asked him, "What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?"

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness.

When Jesus heard it, he said, "The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory."

Early in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace. The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal.

(This happened in order to make come true what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he would die.)

The soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it; let's throw dice to see who will get it." This happened in order to make the scripture come true: "They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled for my robe." And this is what the soldiers did.

Jesus knew that by now everything had been completed; and in order to make the scripture come true, he said, "I am thirsty."

So the twelve apostles called the whole group of believers together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the preaching of God's word in order to handle finances.