Study Desk

When the net is full, they pull it to shore and sit down to divide the fish: the good ones go into the buckets, the worthless ones are thrown away.

and will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

and went back to his hometown. He taught in the synagogue, and those who heard him were amazed. "Where did he get such wisdom?" they asked. "And what about his miracles?

And so they rejected him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is respected everywhere except in his hometown and by his own family."

John's disciples came, carried away his body, and buried it; then they went and told Jesus.

When Jesus heard the news about John, he left there in a boat and went to a lonely place by himself. The people heard about it, and so they left their towns and followed him by land.

"All we have here are five loaves and two fish," they replied.

When they saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. "It's a ghost!" they said, and screamed with fear.

They both got into the boat, and the wind died down.

They crossed the lake and came to land at Gennesaret,

where the people recognized Jesus. So they sent for the sick people in all the surrounding country and brought them to Jesus.

They begged him to let the sick at least touch the edge of his cloak; and all who touched it were made well.

"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

Large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the dumb, and many other sick people, whom they placed at Jesus' feet; and he healed them.

The people were amazed as they saw the dumb speaking, the crippled made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they praised the God of Israel.

Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me for three days and now have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without feeding them, for they might faint on their way home."

"How much bread do you have?" Jesus asked. "Seven loaves," they answered, "and a few small fish."

They all ate and had enough. Then the disciples took up seven baskets full of pieces left over.

Some Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Jesus wanted to trap him, so they asked him to perform a miracle for them, to show that God approved of him.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and the brothers James and John and led them up a high mountain where they were alone.