Study Desk

So if you are about to offer your gift to God at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you,

So if your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is much better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

"Make certain you do not perform your religious duties in public so that people will see what you do. If you do these things publicly, you will not have any reward from your Father in heaven.

"So when you give something to a needy person, do not make a big show of it, as the hypocrites do in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do it so that people will praise them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.

"When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites! They love to stand up and pray in the houses of worship and on the street corners, so that everyone will see them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.

"And when you fast, do not put on a sad face as the hypocrites do. They neglect their appearance so that everyone will see that they are fasting. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.

so that others cannot know that you are fasting—only your Father, who is unseen, will know. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.

but if your eyes are no good, your body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, how terribly dark it will be!

"So do not start worrying: ‘Where will my food come from? or my drink? or my clothes?'

So do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.

"Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you,

So then, you will know the false prophets by what they do.

"So then, anyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

"Why are you so frightened?" Jesus answered. "What little faith you have!" Then he got up and ordered the winds and the waves to stop, and there was a great calm.

When Jesus came to the territory of Gadara on the other side of the lake, he was met by two men who came out of the burial caves there. These men had demons in them and were so fierce that no one dared travel on that road.

So the demons begged Jesus, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

"Go," Jesus told them; so they left and went off into the pigs. The whole herd rushed down the side of the cliff into the lake and was drowned.

So everyone from the town went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their territory.

Jesus perceived what they were thinking, and so he said, "Why are you thinking such evil things?