Study Desk

Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?Job 1:38:41; Psalm 147:9; Luke 12:24;">[xr]

Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat began to be swamped by the waves. Yet Jesushe">[fn] kept sleeping.Mark 4:37; Luke 8:23;">[xr]

"Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.apart from your Father">[fn]

Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

For John didn't come eating or drinking, yet peoplethey">[fn] say, 'He has a demon!'

Or haven't you read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?Numbers 28:9; John 7:22;">[xr]

But he replied to them, "An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign. Yet no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.Isaiah 57:3; Matthew 16:4; Mark 8:38; John 4:48;">[xr]

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom yet doesn't understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.Matthew 4:23;">[xr]

Red sky in the morning, cloudy and storming. 'You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, yet you can't interpret the signs of the times?You say. . . the signs of the times?">[fn]

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected,Matthew 14:17; John 6:9;">[xr]

But I tell you that Elijah has already come, yet peoplethey">[fn] did not recognize him and treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."Matthew 11:14; 16:21; Mark 9:12-13;">[xr]

saying, 'These last fellows worked only one hour, yet you have made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

You blind guides! You filter out a gnat, yet swallow a camel!

You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet.

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, "O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."Matthew 20:22; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 5:30; 6:38; 12:27; Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 5:7;">[xr]

At this pointIn that hour">[fn] Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as if I were a bandit?revolutionary">[fn] Day after day I sat teaching in the temple, yet you didn't arrest me.

He said to them, "Why are you such cowards? Don't you have any faith yet?"

His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

The king was deeply saddened, yet because of his oaths and his guests he was reluctant to refuse her.Matthew 14:9;">[xr]

But she answered him, "Yes,Yes">[fn] Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children's crumbs."