Study Desk

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.

There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!

But they said nothing. And he made him well and sent him away.

But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there.

For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:

For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?

But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:

But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.

But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.

But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.