Study Desk

After that He went out and looked at a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, "Follow Me."

"How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

"Now why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

"Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like:

"And blessed is anyone who does not take offense at Me."

And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

"You gave Me no kiss; but she has not stopped kissing My feet since the time I came in.

And seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, and said with a loud voice, "What business do You have with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!"

And Jesus said, "Who is the one who touched Me?" And while they were all denying it, Peter said, "Master, the people are crowding and pressing in on You."

But Jesus said, "Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had left Me."

And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

"For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels.

and He said to them, "Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great."

And He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

Another also said, "I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say goodbye to those at my home."

"The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; but the one who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me."

"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son determines to reveal Him."

But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do the serving by myself? Then tell her to help me."

And He said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,

because a friend of mine has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to serve him';