Study Desk

Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”

So, departing quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell his disciples the news.

and told them, “Say this, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him while we were sleeping.’

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:Prepare the way for the Lord;make his paths straight!

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

He proclaimed, “One who is more powerful than I am is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of his sandals.

Going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat putting their nets in order.

They were astonished at his teaching because he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he got up, went out, and made his way to a deserted place; and there he was praying.

Simon and his companions searched for him,

Then a man with leprosy came to him and, on his knees, begged him: “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,”

Right away Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.

When the scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

On the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, picking some heads of grain.

Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a large crowd followed from Galilee, and a large crowd followed from Judea,

Then he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him.

and to James the son of Zebedee, and to his brother John, he gave the name “Boanerges” (that is, “Sons of Thunder”);

When his family heard this, they set out to restrain him, because they said, “He’s out of his mind.”