Study Desk

Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages.

When you enter any town, and they welcome you, eat the things set before you.

When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say,

Jesus took up the question and said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead.

While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching, and look—something greater than Jonah is here.

And he responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?

They will come from east and west, from north and south, to share the banquet

But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets;

“But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:

and after they flog him, they will kill him, and he will rise on the third day.”

They understood none of these things. The meaning of the saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.

Instantly he could see, and he began to follow him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem, and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear right away.

Then they brought it to Jesus, and after throwing their clothes on the donkey, they helped Jesus get on it.

Now he came near the path down the Mount of Olives, and the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen: