Study Desk

One day He went on board a boat--both He and his disciples; and He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the Lake." So they set sail.

During the passage He fell asleep, and there came down a squall of wind on the Lake, so that the boat began to fill and they were in deadly peril.

So they came and woke Him, crying, "Rabbi, Rabbi, we are drowning." Then He roused Himself and rebuked the wind and the surging of the water, and they ceased and there was a calm.

Then the whole population of the Gerasenes and of the adjacent districts begged Him to depart from them; for their terror was great. So He went on board and returned.

"Return home," He said, "and tell there all that God has done for you." So he went and published through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

"Who is it touched me?" Jesus asked. And when all denied having done so, Peter and the rest said, "Rabbi, the crowds are hemming you in and pressing on you."

So He came to the house, but allowed no one to go in with Him but Peter and John and James and the girl's father and mother.

So they departed and visited village after village, spreading the Good News and performing cures everywhere.

They did so, making them all, without exception, sit down.

So they ate and were fully satisfied, all of them; and what they had remaining over was gathered up, twelve baskets of fragments.

And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.

They came in glory, and kept speaking about His death, which He was so soon to undergo in Jerusalem.

So He said to them, "When you pray, say, `Father may Thy name be kept holy; let Thy Kingdom come;

"So I say to you, `Ask, and what you ask for shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you.'

For just as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a token to the present generation.

If, however, your whole body is penetrated with light, and has no part dark, it will be so lighted, all of it, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."

When He had thus spoken, a Pharisee invited Him to breakfast at his house; so He entered and took His place at table.

so that the blood of all the Prophets, that is being shed from the creation of the world onwards, may be required from the present generation.

Meanwhile the people had come streaming towards Him by tens of thousands, so that they were trampling one another under foot. And now He proceeded to say to His disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is to say, beware of hypocrisy.

"So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God."