Study Desk

Jesus told his disciples a story about how they should keep on praying and never give up:

Jesus told a story to some people who thought they were better than others and who looked down on everyone else:

will be given much more in this life. And in the future world they will have eternal life."

They will beat him and kill him, but three days later he will rise to life.

Right away the man could see, and he went with Jesus and started thanking God. When the crowds saw what happened, they praised God.

But the people of his country hated him, and they sent messengers to the foreign country to say, "We don't want this man to be our king."

After the prince had been made king, he returned and called in his servants. He asked them how much they had earned with the money they had been given.

They went off and found everything just as Jesus had said.

Then they led the donkey to Jesus. They put some of their clothes on its back and helped Jesus get on.

When Jesus was starting down the Mount of Olives, his large crowd of disciples were happy and praised God because of all the miracles they had seen.

They shouted, "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory to God."

They will level you to the ground and kill your people. Not one stone in your buildings will be left on top of another. This will happen because you did not see that God had come to save you.

They talked this over and said to each other, "We can't say that God gave John this right. Jesus will ask us why we didn't believe John.

And we can't say that it was merely some human who gave John the right to baptize. The crowd will stone us to death, because they think John was a prophet."

When it was time to harvest the crop, he sent a servant to ask the renters for his share of the grapes. But they beat up the servant and sent him away without anything.

So the owner sent another servant. The renters also beat him up. They insulted him terribly and sent him away without a thing.

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Jesus asked, "What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do?

I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard." When the people heard this, they said, "This must never happen!"

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, "Then what do the Scriptures mean when they say, ‘The stone that the builders tossed aside is now the most important stone of all'?

The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses knew that Jesus was talking about them when he was telling this story. They wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the people.