Study Desk

When evil spirits saw Jesus, they fell down before him and shouted, "You are the Son of God!"

Then Jesus went up on a mountain and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him.

Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to tell him to come out.

Many people were sitting around Jesus, and they said to him, "Your mother and brothers are waiting for you outside."

so that: ‘They will look and look, but they will not learn. They will listen and listen, but they will not understand. If they did learn and understand, they would come back to me and be forgiven.'" Isaiah 6:9–10

Others are like the seed planted on rocky ground. They hear the teaching and quickly accept it with joy.

Others are like the seed planted in the good ground. They hear the teaching and accept it. Then they grow and produce fruit—sometimes thirty times more, sometimes sixty times more, and sometimes a hundred times more."

They came to Jesus and saw the man who used to have the many evil spirits, sitting, clothed, and in his right mind. And they were frightened.

The people who saw this told the others what had happened to the man who had the demons living in him, and they told about the pigs.

When they came to the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus found many people there making lots of noise and crying loudly.

But they laughed at him. So, after throwing them out of the house, Jesus took the child's father and mother and his three followers into the room where the child was.

They forced many demons out and put olive oil on many sick people and healed them.

When John's followers heard this, they came and got John's body and put it in a tomb.

The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him about all the things they had done and taught.

But many people saw them leave and recognized them. So from all the towns they ran to the place where Jesus was going, and they got there before him.

Send the people away so they can go to the countryside and towns around here to buy themselves something to eat."

Jesus asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and see." When they found out, they said, "Five loaves and two fish."

But when they saw him walking on the water, they thought he was a ghost and cried out.

They all saw him and were afraid. But quickly Jesus spoke to them and said, "Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid."

When they had crossed the lake, they came to shore at Gennesaret and tied the boat there.