Study Desk

Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself,

What can anyone give in exchange for his life?

and his clothes became dazzling—extremely white as no launderer on earth could whiten them.

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.”

After he had gone into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

For he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man

He took a child, had him stand among them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,

He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on him again, and as was his custom he taught them again.

Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife

After taking them in his arms, he laid his hands on them and blessed them.

Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth

The disciples were astonished at his words. Again Jesus said to them, “Children,

They came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

He threw off his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

When they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples

The chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to Jesus to trap him in his words.

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child, that man should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

David himself calls him ‘Lord’; how then can he be his son?”