Study Desk

Afterward he was on his way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with him.

Just as he neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.

The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

Then fear came over everyone, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us,” and “God has visited his people.”

Then John’s disciples told him about all these things. So John summoned two of his disciples

and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with the perfume.

“A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

Then his mother and brothers came to him, but they could not meet with him because of the crowd.

One day he and his disciples got into a boat, and he told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.”

Then people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man the demons had departed from, sitting at Jesus’s feet, dressed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’s feet and pleaded with him to come to his house,

approached from behind and touched the end of his robe. Instantly her bleeding stopped.

While he was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.

As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white.

They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

Peter and those with him were in a deep sleep, and when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who were standing with him.

As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Jesus told him, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”