Study Desk

Another of his disciples said, "Lord, first let me return home and bury my father."

Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples.

Jesus climbed into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town.

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector's booth. "Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.

Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners.

But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with such scum?"

So Jesus and his disciples got up and went with him.

Just then a woman who had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding came up behind him. She touched the fringe of his robe,

for she thought, "If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed."

But instead, they went out and spread his fame all over the region.

He said to his disciples, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few.

So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields."

Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness.

"Whenever you enter a city or village, search for a worthy person and stay in his home until you leave town.

"A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed.

‘I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

When Jesus had finished giving these instructions to his twelve disciples, he went out to teach and preach in towns throughout the region.

John the Baptist, who was in prison, heard about all the things the Messiah was doing. So he sent his disciples to ask Jesus,

For John didn't spend his time eating and drinking, and you say, ‘He's possessed by a demon.'

Then Jesus began to denounce the towns where he had done so many of his miracles, because they hadn't repented of their sins and turned to God.