Study Desk

"When you come to a town or village, go in and look for someone who is willing to welcome you, and stay with him until you leave that place.

Watch out, for there will be those who will arrest you and take you to court, and they will whip you in the synagogues.

For my sake you will be brought to trial before rulers and kings, to tell the Good News to them and to the Gentiles.

For the words you will speak will not be yours; they will come from the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

For only a penny you can buy two sparrows, yet not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent.

As for you, even the hairs of your head have all been counted.

"Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven.

Those who try to gain their own life will lose it; but those who lose their life for my sake will gain it.

For John is the one of whom the scripture says: ‘God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.'

‘We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn't dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn't cry!'

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that they had turned from their sins!

And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would still be in existence today!

For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light."

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Jesus, "Look, it is against our Law for your disciples to do this on the Sabbath!"

He went into the house of God, and he and his men ate the bread offered to God, even though it was against the Law for them to eat it—only the priests were allowed to eat that bread.

for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

"Anyone who is not for me is really against me; anyone who does not help me gather is really scattering.

For this reason I tell you: people can be forgiven any sin and any evil thing they say; but whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

You snakes—how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

"How evil and godless are the people of this day!" Jesus exclaimed. "You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of the prophet Jonah.