Study Desk

Jesus answered, "Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and proclaim the Kingdom of God."

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God."

heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near you.'

‘Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come near you!'

I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to that town!

God will show more mercy on the Judgment Day to Tyre and Sidon than to you.

The man answered, "‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind'; and ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.'"

Others wanted to trap Jesus, so they asked him to perform a miracle to show that God approved of him.

No, it is rather by means of God's power that I drive out demons, and this proves that the Kingdom of God has already come to you.

But Jesus answered, "Rather, how happy are those who hear the word of God and obey it!"

Fools! Did not God, who made the outside, also make the inside?

"How terrible for you Pharisees! You give to God one tenth of the seasoning herbs, such as mint and rue and all the other herbs, but you neglect justice and love for God. These you should practice, without neglecting the others.

For this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and messengers; they will kill some of them and persecute others.'

I will show you whom to fear: fear God, who, after killing, has the authority to throw into hell. Believe me, he is the one you must fear!

"Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one sparrow is forgotten by God.

"I assure you that those who declare publicly that they belong to me, the Son of Man will do the same for them before the angels of God.

But those who reject me publicly, the Son of Man will also reject them before the angels of God.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?'"

Look at the crows: they don't plant seeds or gather a harvest; they don't have storage rooms or barns; God feeds them! You are worth so much more than birds!

It is God who clothes the wild grass—grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!