Study Desk

Jesus looked around and saw them following. "What do you want?" he asked them. They replied, "Rabbi" (which means "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

"Come and see," he said. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when they went with him to the place where he was staying, and they remained with him the rest of the day.

"What!" they exclaimed. "It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?"

After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.

The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!

Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there.

He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, "Yesterday afternoon at one o'clock his fever suddenly disappeared!"

"I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment.

But I have a greater witness than John—my teachings and my miracles. The Father gave me these works to accomplish, and they prove that he sent me.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to the people. Afterward he did the same with the fish. And they all ate as much as they wanted.

So they picked up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with scraps left by the people who had eaten from the five barley loaves.

But as darkness fell and Jesus still hadn't come back, they got into the boat and headed across the lake toward Capernaum.

Then they were eager to let him in the boat, and immediately they arrived at their destination!

The next day the crowd that had stayed on the far shore saw that the disciples had taken the only boat, and they realized Jesus had not gone with them.

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went across to Capernaum to look for him.

They found him on the other side of the lake and asked, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he say, ‘I came down from heaven'?"

As it is written in the Scriptures, ‘They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

But here he is, speaking in public, and they say nothing to him. Could our leaders possibly believe that he is the Messiah?