Study Desk

Pilate wanted to set Jesus free, so he spoke again to the crowds.

Then Jesus asked the two disciples, "Why can't you understand? How can you be so slow to believe all that the prophets said?

They begged him, "Stay with us! It's already late, and the sun is going down." So Jesus went into the house to stay with them.

So they got right up and returned to Jerusalem. The two disciples found the eleven apostles and the others gathered together.

But Jesus said, "Why are you so frightened? Why do you doubt?

The disciples were so glad and amazed that they could not believe it. Jesus then asked them, "Do you have something to eat?"

They also say that all people of every nation must be told in my name to turn to God, in order to be forgiven. So beginning in Jerusalem,

Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God.

I didn't know who he was. But I came to baptize you with water, so that everyone in Israel would see him.

Jesus replied, "Come and see!" It was already about four o'clock in the afternoon when they went with him and saw where he lived. So they stayed on for the rest of the day.

So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins.

Jesus replied, "Mother, my time hasn't yet come: You must not tell me what to do." Mary then said to the servants, "Do whatever Jesus tells you to do." At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus told the servants to fill them to the top with water. Then after the jars had been filled, he said, "Now take some water and give it to the man in charge of the feast." The servants did as Jesus told them, and the man in charge drank some of the water that had now turned into wine. He did not know where the wine had come from, but the servants did. He called the bridegroom over and said, "The best wine is always served first. Then after the guests have had plenty, the other wine is served. But you have kept the best until last!" This was Jesus' first miracle, and he did it in the village of Cana in Galilee. There Jesus showed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him. After this, he went with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples to the town of Capernaum, where they stayed for a few days. Not long before the Jewish festival of Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem. There he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables. So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins. Jesus said to the people who had been selling doves, "Get those doves out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace." The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, "My love for your house burns in me like a fire." The Jewish leaders asked Jesus, "What miracle will you work to show us why you have done this?" "Destroy this temple," Jesus answered, "and in three days I will build it again!" The leaders replied, "It took forty-six years to build this temple. What makes you think you can rebuild it in three days?" But Jesus was talking about his body as a temple. And when he was raised from death, his disciples remembered what he had told them. Then they believed the Scriptures and the words of Jesus. In Jerusalem during Passover many people put their faith in Jesus, because they saw him work miracles.

God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.

At a wedding the groom is the one who gets married. The best man is glad just to be there and to hear the groom's voice. That's why I am so glad.

So the saying proves true, "Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop."

The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, "Your son will live!" So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants to.

I don't depend on what people say about me, but I tell you these things so that you may be saved.

The people ate all they wanted, and Jesus told his disciples to gather up the leftovers, so that nothing would be wasted.

Jesus realized that they would try to force him to be their king. So he went up on a mountain, where he could be alone.