Study Desk

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

Simon and his companions searched for him.

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be clean!"

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, "Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

As Jesus was having a meal in Levi's home, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry—

how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?"

After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, "sons of thunder");

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

But no one is able to enter a strong man's house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

Then Jesus' mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them: