Study Desk

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven in this life or in the life to come.

He said to them, "The sinful people of this day look for something special to see. There will be nothing special to see but the powerful works of the early preacher Jonah.

Then it says, ‘I will go back into my house from which I came.' When it goes back, it sees that it is empty. But it sees that the house has been cleaned and looks good.

He who has will have more given to him. He will have even more than enough. But he who has little will have even that taken away from him.

"This is why I speak to them in picture-stories. They have eyes but they do not see. They have ears but they do not hear and they do not understand.

It happened in their lives as Isaiah said it would happen. He said, ‘You hear and hear but do not understand. You look and look but do not see.

But how great are your eyes because they see. How great are your ears because they hear.

For sure, I tell you, that many early preachers and men right with God have wanted to see the things you see, but they did not see them. They wanted to hear the things you hear, but they did not hear them.

The seed which fell among thorns is like the person who hears the Word but the cares of this life, and the love for money let the thorns come up and do not give the seed room to grow and give grain.

It is the smallest of seeds. But when it is full-grown, it is larger than the grain of the fields and it becomes a tree. The birds of the sky come and stay in its branches."

He would have killed John but he was afraid of the people. The people thought John was one who spoke for God.

The king was sorry. But he said for it to be given because he had promised and because of those who were eating with him.

But when he saw the strong wind, he was afraid. He began to go down in the water. He cried out, "Lord, save me!"

But you say that if a man says to his parents that anything he has, that might have been of help to them, is already given to God,

'These people show respect to Me with their mouth, but their heart is far from Me.

But whatever comes from the mouth has come out of the heart. These things make the man unclean inside.

But Jesus did not speak a word to her. His followers kept asking, saying, "Send her away for she keeps calling us."

But He said, "It is not right to take children's food and throw it to the dogs."

She said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the pieces that fall from the table of their owners."

And in the morning you say, ‘We will have a storm today because the sky is red and the clouds are low.' You understand the things you see in the sky, but you cannot understand the special things you see these days!)