Study Desk

So send the people away. They need to go to the farms and towns around here to buy some food to eat."

So all the people sat in groups. There were about 50 or 100 people in each group.

so they ran to tell others throughout that area. They brought sick people on mats to every place Jesus went.

Then he said, "You show great skill in avoiding the commands of God so that you can follow your own teachings!

So you are teaching that it is not important to do what God said. You think it is more important to follow those traditions you have, which you pass on to others. And you do many things like that."

Jesus went from there to the area around Tyre. He did not want the people in that area to know he was there, so he went into a house. But he could not stay hidden.

A woman heard that he was there. Her little daughter had an evil spirit inside her. So the woman came to Jesus and bowed down near his feet.

Another time there were many people with Jesus. The people had nothing to eat. So he called his followers to him and said,

The Pharisees came to Jesus and asked him questions. They wanted to test him. So they asked him to do a miracle as a sign from God.

Jesus knew that the followers were talking about this. So he asked them, "Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are you not able to understand?

So Jesus held the blind man's hand and led him out of the village. Then he spit on the man's eyes. He laid his hands on him and asked, "Can you see now?"

People today are so sinful. They have not been faithful to God. As you live among them, don't be ashamed of me and my teaching. If that happens, I will be ashamed of you when I come with the glory of my Father and the holy angels."

Peter did not know what to say, because he and the other two followers were so afraid.

So the followers waited to say anything about what they saw. But they discussed among themselves what Jesus meant about rising from death.

So the followers brought the boy to Jesus. When the evil spirit saw Jesus, it attacked the boy. The boy fell down and rolled on the ground. He was foaming at the mouth.

Jesus saw that all the people were running there to see what was happening. So he spoke to the evil spirit. He said, "You evil spirit that makes this boy deaf and stops him from talking—I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"

Then John said, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to force demons out of someone. He is not one of us. So we told him to stop, because he does not belong to our group."

"Salt is good. But if it loses its salty taste, you can't make it good again. So, don't lose that good quality of salt you have. And live in peace with each other."

And the two people will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one.

God has joined them together, so no one should separate them."