Study Desk

So Jesus called them to him and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

So if Satan's kingdom divides into groups, it cannot last, but will fall apart and come to an end.

Again Jesus began to teach beside Lake Galilee. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it. The boat was out in the water, and the crowd stood on the shore at the water's edge.

so that, ‘They may look and look, yet not see; they may listen and listen, yet not understand. For if they did, they would turn to God, and he would forgive them.'"

But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.

So they left the crowd; the disciples got into the boat in which Jesus was already sitting, and they took him with them. Other boats were there too.

Suddenly a strong wind blew up, and the waves began to spill over into the boat, so that it was about to fill with water.

He was some distance away when he saw Jesus; so he ran, fell on his knees before him,

So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" The man answered, "My name is ‘Mob'—there are so many of us!"

So the spirits begged Jesus, "Send us to the pigs, and let us go into them."

So they asked Jesus to leave their territory.

So the man left and went all through the Ten Towns, telling what Jesus had done for him. And all who heard it were amazed.

and begged him earnestly, "My little daughter is very sick. Please come and place your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!"

Then Jesus started off with him. So many people were going along with Jesus that they were crowding him from every side.

She had heard about Jesus, so she came in the crowd behind him,

At once Jesus knew that power had gone out of him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

The woman realized what had happened to her, so she came, trembling with fear, knelt at his feet, and told him the whole truth.

They started making fun of him, so he put them all out, took the child's father and mother and his three disciples, and went into the room where the child was lying.

Isn't he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters living here?" And so they rejected him.

So they went out and preached that people should turn away from their sins.