Study Desk

Right away, Jesus reached out his hand. He helped Peter up and said, "You surely don't have much faith. Why do you doubt?"

Jesus and his disciples crossed the lake and came to shore near the town of Gennesaret.

They begged him just to let them touch his clothes, and everyone who did was healed.

Then his disciples came over to him and asked, "Do you know that you insulted the Pharisees by what you said?"

Jesus did not say a word. But the woman kept following along and shouting, so his disciples came up and asked him to send her away.

Jesus called his disciples together and told them, "I feel sorry for these people. They have been with me for three days, and they don't have anything to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry. They might faint on their way home."

His disciples said, "This place is like a desert. Where can we find enough food to feed such a crowd?"

he took the seven loaves of bread and the fish and gave thanks. He then broke them and handed them to his disciples, who passed them around to the crowds.

When Jesus and his disciples were near the town of Caesarea Philippi, he asked them, "What do people say about the Son of Man?"

Jesus told his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

From then on, Jesus began telling his disciples what would happen to him. He said, "I must go to Jerusalem. There the nation's leaders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law of Moses will make me suffer terribly. I will be killed, but three days later I will rise to life."

Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget about yourself. You must take up your cross and follow me.

The Son of Man will soon come in the glory of his Father and with his angels to reward all people for what they have done.

I promise you that some of those standing here will not die before they see the Son of Man coming with his kingdom.

There in front of the disciples, Jesus was completely changed. His face was shining like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

On their way down from the mountain, Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had been raised from death.

Jesus and his disciples returned to the crowd. A man knelt in front of him

While Jesus and his disciples were going from place to place in Galilee, he told them, "The Son of Man will be handed over to people

This story will show you what the kingdom of heaven is like: One day a king decided to call in his officials and ask them to give an account of what they owed him.

But he didn't have any money to pay what he owed. The king ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all he owned, in order to pay the debt.