Study Desk

God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.

Don't give to dogs what belongs to God. They will only turn and attack you. Don't throw pearls down in front of pigs. They will trample all over them.

Suddenly they shouted, "Jesus, Son of God, what do you want with us? Have you come to punish us before our time?"

Some teachers of the Law of Moses said to themselves, "Jesus must think he is God!"

When the crowds saw this, they were afraid and praised God for giving such authority to people.

Don't be afraid of people. They can kill you, but they cannot harm your soul. Instead, you should fear God who can destroy both your body and your soul in hell.

God will bless everyone who doesn't reject me because of what I do."

In the Scriptures God says about him, "I am sending my messenger ahead of you to get things ready for you."

In the towns where Jesus had worked most of his miracles, the people refused to turn to God. So Jesus was upset with them and said:

You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are in for trouble too! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.

He went into the house of God, and then they ate the sacred loaves of bread that only priests are supposed to eat.

On the day of judgment the people of Nineveh will stand there with you and condemn you. They turned to God when Jonah preached, and yet here is something far greater than Jonah.

But God has blessed you, because your eyes can see and your ears can hear!

The men in the boat worshiped Jesus and said, "You really are the Son of God!"

Jesus answered: Why do you disobey God and follow your own teaching?

Didn't God command you to respect your father and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents?

But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they have has been offered to God.

And you are nothing but show-offs! Isaiah the prophet was right when he wrote that God had said,

The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean."

But the words that come out of your mouth come from your heart. And they are what make you unfit to worship God.