Study Desk

One Sabbath, Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields. His disciples were hungry and began picking and eating grains of wheat.

Jesus answered: You surely must have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry.

So if Satan fights against himself, how can his kingdom last?

How can anyone break into a strong man's house and steal his things, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can take everything.

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside because they wanted to talk with him.

Then he pointed to his disciples and said, "These are my mother and my brothers!

"An enemy did this," he replied. His servants then asked, "Do you want us to go out and pull up the weeds?"

After Jesus left the crowd and went inside, his disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the story about the weeds in the wheat field."

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everyone who does wrong or causes others to sin.

Jesus asked his disciples if they understood all these things. They said, "Yes, we do."

and went to his hometown. He taught in their meeting place, and the people were so amazed that they asked, "Where does he get all this wisdom and the power to work these miracles?

Isn't he the son of the carpenter? Isn't Mary his mother, and aren't James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas his brothers?

Don't his sisters still live here in our town? How can he do all this?"

and told his officials, "This is John the Baptist! He has come back from death, and that's why he has the power to work these miracles."

The king was sorry for what he had said. But he did not want to break the promise he had made in front of his guests. So he ordered a guard

John's followers took his body and buried it. Then they told Jesus what had happened.

Jesus asked his disciples to bring the food to him,

and he told the crowd to sit down on the grass. Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish. He looked up toward heaven and blessed the food. Then he broke the bread and handed it to his disciples, and they gave it to the people.

Right away, Jesus made his disciples get into a boat and start back across the lake. But he stayed until he had sent the crowds away.

A little while before morning, Jesus came walking on the water toward his disciples.