Study Desk

He went through one town and village after another, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem.

At the time of the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

“So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

Whoever does not bear his own cross

When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,

and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets

Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

He longed to eat his fill from

When he came to his senses,

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion.

“But the father told his servants, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe

“Now his older son was in the field; as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

“Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first one.

But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was lying at his gate.

He said to his disciples, “Offenses will certainly come,

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

He fell facedown at his feet, thanking him. And he was a Samaritan.