Study Desk

As they looked on, a change came over Jesus: his face was shining like the sun, and his clothes were dazzling white.

So they looked up and saw no one there but Jesus.

But I tell you that Elijah has already come and people did not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. In the same way they will also mistreat the Son of Man."

When the other servants saw what had happened, they were very upset and went to the king and told him everything.

For there are different reasons why men cannot marry: some, because they were born that way; others, because men made them that way; and others do not marry for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Let him who can accept this teaching do so."

So they went. Then at twelve o'clock and again at three o'clock he did the same thing.

‘No one hired us,' they answered. ‘Well, then, you go and work in the vineyard,' he told them.

They took their money and started grumbling against the employer.

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and spoke to them privately, as they walked along.

"Listen," he told them, "we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death

The crowd scolded them and told them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, "Son of David! Have mercy on us, sir!"

Jesus had pity on them and touched their eyes; at once they were able to see, and they followed him.

As Jesus and his disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives. There Jesus sent two of the disciples on ahead

they brought the donkey and the colt, threw their cloaks over them, and Jesus got on.

The chief priests and the teachers of the Law became angry when they saw the wonderful things he was doing and the children shouting in the Temple, "Praise to David's Son!"

So they asked Jesus, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Indeed I do," answered Jesus. "Haven't you ever read this scripture? ‘You have trained children and babies to offer perfect praise.'"

The disciples saw this and were astounded. "How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?" they asked.

So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.

Which one of the two did what his father wanted?" "The older one," they answered. So Jesus said to them, "I tell you: the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and we will get his property!'