Study Desk

And as they were going along the road, someone said to Him, "I will follow You wherever You go."

Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they give you; for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house.

And whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you;

But in whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had been performed in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Jesus replied and said, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.

And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason, they will be your judges.

Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first."

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute,

"But I say to you, My friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

Now when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say,

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

And be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.

but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a beating, will receive but a few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

And Jesus answered and said to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered these things?

And they will come from east and west and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.