Study Desk

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.

Wherever he went, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch just the end of his robe. And everyone who touched it was healed.

They observed that some of his disciples were eating bread with unclean—that is, unwashed—hands.

But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit

“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

When he went into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach

Instead, immediately after hearing about him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and fell at his feet.

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking and begged Jesus to lay his hand on him.

So he took him away from the crowd in private. After putting his fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, he touched his tongue.

Immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly.

His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to feed these people?”

He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.

And he immediately got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

Sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, “Why does this generation

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”

Again Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes. The man looked intently and his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly.

Jesus went out with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

But turning around and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan!