Study Desk

One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, "Let's go across to the other side of the lake." So they set out,

They came and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are about to die!" So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm.

So they sailed over to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

So the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

Then all the people of the Gerasenes and the surrounding region asked Jesus to leave them alone, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and left.

"Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you." So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

Herod said, "I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

So they did as Jesus directed, and the people all sat down.

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so."

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

So he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

The expert in religious law said, "The one who showed mercy to him." So Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

So he said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.

"So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.