Study Desk

But he said to his father, "For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends.

His father replied, "My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

Jesus said to his disciples: A rich man once had a manager to take care of his business. But he was told that his manager was wasting money.

Then one by one he called in the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, "How much do you owe my master?"

The manager asked someone else who was in debt to his master, "How much do you owe?" "A thousand bushels of wheat," the man replied. The manager said, "Take your bill and write ‘eight hundred'."

The master praised his dishonest manager for looking out for himself so well. That's how it is! The people of this world look out for themselves better than the people who belong to the light.

It is a terrible sin for a man to divorce his wife and marry another woman. It is also a terrible sin for a man to marry a divorced woman.

He was happy just to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. His body was covered with sores, and dogs kept coming up to lick them.

He went to hell and was suffering terribly. When he looked up and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side,

he said to Abraham, "Have pity on me! Send Lazarus to dip his finger in water and touch my tongue. I'm suffering terribly in this fire."

Jesus said to his disciples: There will always be something that causes people to sin. But anyone who causes them to sin is in for trouble. A person who causes even one of my little followers to sin

On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

Jesus said to his disciples: The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not.

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

Won't God protect his chosen ones who pray to him day and night? Won't he be concerned for them?

The tax collector stood off at a distance and did not think he was good enough even to look up toward heaven. He was so sorry for what he had done that he pounded his chest and prayed, "God, have pity on me! I am such a sinner."

Some people brought their little children for Jesus to bless. But when his disciples saw them doing this, they told the people to stop bothering him.

Jesus was heading his way, and Zacchaeus wanted to see what he was like. But Zacchaeus was a short man and could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree.

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.