Study Desk

In the Scriptures, God calls John his messenger and says, "I am sending my messenger ahead of you to get things ready for you."

So I tell you that all her sins are forgiven, and that is why she has shown great love. But anyone who has been forgiven for only a little will show only a little love."

So he answered: I have explained the secrets about God's kingdom to you, but for others I can only use stories. These people look, but they don't see, and they hear, but they don't understand.

The seeds that fell on rocky ground are the people who gladly hear the message and accept it. But they don't have deep roots, and they believe only for a little while. As soon as life gets hard, they give up.

The seeds that fell among the thornbushes are also people who hear the message. But they are so eager for riches and pleasures that they never produce anything.

As Jesus was getting out of the boat, he was met by a man from that town. The man had demons in him. He had gone naked for a long time and no longer lived in a house, but in the graveyard.

"Go back home and tell everyone how much God has done for you." The man then went all over town, telling everything that Jesus had done for him.

Everyone had been waiting for Jesus, and when he came back, a crowd was there to welcome him.

In the crowd was a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years. She had spent everything she had on doctors, but none of them could make her well.

Everyone was crying and weeping for the girl. But Jesus said, "The child isn't dead. She is just asleep."

If you want to save your life, you will destroy it. But if you give up your life for me, you will save it.

Moses and Elijah were about to leave, when Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here! Let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." But Peter did not know what he was talking about.

After the voice had spoken, Peter, John, and James saw only Jesus. For some time they kept quiet and did not say anything about what they had seen.

Just then someone in the crowd shouted, "Teacher, please do something for my son! He is my only child!

"Don't stop him!" Jesus said. "Anyone who isn't against you is for you."

Not long before it was time for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he made up his mind to go to Jerusalem.

He sent some messengers on ahead to a Samaritan village to get things ready for him.

But Jesus turned and corrected them for what they had said.

If the people living there are peace-loving, your prayer for peace will bless them. But if they are not peace-loving, your prayer will return to you.

You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are also in for trouble! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.