Study Desk

He also said in his teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes

Summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you,

As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”

A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house,

and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat.

While he was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head.

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare the Passover so that you may eat it?”

So he sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”

His betrayer had given them a signal. “The one I kiss,” he said, “he’s the one; arrest him and take him away under guard.”

One of those who stood by drew his sword, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his ear.

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “Why do we still need witnesses?

The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.

After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his clothes on him.

Then they crucified him and divided his clothes, casting lots for them to decide what each would get.

They crucified two criminals with him, one on his right and one on his left.

Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last.

When the centurion, who was standing opposite him, saw the way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there just as he told you.’”

In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.