Study Desk

People were bringing infants to him so he might touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

So he said to them, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left a house, wife or brothers or sisters, parents or children because of the kingdom of God,

So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

So running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus, since he was about to pass that way.

So he quickly came down and welcomed him joyfully.

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business.

“So he said to him, ‘You will be over five towns.’

So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’

So those who were sent left and found it just as he had told them.

So they answered that they did not know its origin.

At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers so that they might give him some fruit from the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

“But when the tenant farmers saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let’s kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours.’

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

They watched closely and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, so that they could catch him in what he said, to hand him over to the governor’s rule and authority.

“Teacher,” they asked him, “so when will these things happen? And what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”

So he accepted the offer and started looking for a good opportunity to betray him to them when the crowd was not present.

So they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

So they began to argue among themselves which of them it could be who was going to do it.

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom.

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”