Study Desk

Jesus continued along with the leader and went into his house. There he saw the funeral musicians and many people crying.

Jesus said to his followers, "There are many people to harvest but only a few workers to help harvest them.

Pray to the Lord, who owns the harvest, that he will send more workers to gather his harvest."

Jesus called his twelve followers together and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and sickness.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

"A student is not better than his teacher, and a servant is not better than his master.

A student should be satisfied to become like his teacher; a servant should be satisfied to become like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, then the other members of the family will be called worse names!

I have come so that ‘a son will be against his father, a daughter will be against her mother, a daughter-in-law will be against her mother-in-law.

A person's enemies will be members of his own family.' Micah 7:6

After Jesus finished telling these things to his twelve followers, he left there and went to the towns in Galilee to teach and preach.

John the Baptist was in prison, but he heard about what the Christ was doing. So John sent some of his followers to Jesus.

Then Jesus criticized the cities where he did most of his miracles, because the people did not change their lives and stop sinning.

At that time Jesus was walking through some fields of grain on a Sabbath day. His followers were hungry, so they began to pick the grain and eat it.

Then Jesus said to the man with the crippled hand, "Hold out your hand." The man held out his hand, and it became well again, like the other hand.

He will not argue or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets.

And if Satan forces out himself, then Satan is divided against himself, and his kingdom will not continue.

"If anyone wants to enter a strong person's house and steal his things, he must first tie up the strong person. Then he can steal the things from the house.

While Jesus was talking to the people, his mother and brothers stood outside, trying to find a way to talk to him.

Then he pointed to his followers and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.

Then Jesus used stories to teach them many things. He said: "A farmer went out to plant his seed.