Study Desk

But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom all who cause sin

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied. Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.

He went to his hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

And his sisters, aren’t they all with us? So where does he get all these things?”

“This is John the Baptist,” he told his servants. “He has been raised from the dead, and that’s why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

For Herod had arrested John, chained him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Although the king regretted it, he commanded that it be granted because of his oaths and his guests.

His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, who carried it to her mother.

Then his disciples came, removed the corpse, buried it, and went and reported to Jesus.

Immediately Jesus reached out his hand, caught hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

They begged him that they might only touch the end of his robe, and as many as touched it were healed.

But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple,”

he does not have to honor his father.’

Jesus did not say a word to her. His disciples approached him and urged him, “Send her away because she’s crying out after us.”

and large crowds came to him, including the lame, the blind, the crippled, those unable to speak, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he healed them.

Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”