Study Desk

He went into the house of God, took the bread offered to God, ate it, and gave it also to his men. Yet it is against our Law for anyone except the priests to eat that bread."

He looked around at them all; then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand became well again.

When day came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he named apostles:

Simon (whom he named Peter) and his brother Andrew; James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

When Jesus had come down from the hill with the apostles, he stood on a level place with a large number of his disciples. A large crowd of people was there from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from the coast cities of Tyre and Sidon;

Jesus looked at his disciples and said, "Happy are you poor; the Kingdom of God is yours!

A good person brings good out of the treasure of good things in his heart; a bad person brings bad out of his treasure of bad things. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

He is like a man who, in building his house, dug deep and laid the foundation on rock. The river flooded over and hit that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

But anyone who hears my words and does not obey them is like a man who built his house without laying a foundation; when the flood hit that house it fell at once—and what a terrible crash that was!"

When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his servant.

The messengers went back to the officer's house and found his servant well.

Soon afterward Jesus went to a town named Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd.

When the Lord saw her, his heart was filled with pity for her, and he said to her, "Don't cry."

The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

They all were filled with fear and praised God. "A great prophet has appeared among us!" they said; "God has come to save his people!"

A Pharisee invited Jesus to have dinner with him, and Jesus went to his house and sat down to eat.

and stood behind Jesus, by his feet, crying and wetting his feet with her tears. Then she dried his feet with her hair, kissed them, and poured the perfume on them.

Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod's court; and Susanna, and many other women who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples.

His disciples asked Jesus what this parable meant,

One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, "Let us go across to the other side of the lake." So they started out.