Study Desk

For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in his day.

Whoever tries to make his life secure

I tell you, this one went down to his house justified

He called ten of his servants, gave them ten minas,

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us.’

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business.

They were not able to catch him in what he said in public, and being amazed at his answer, they became silent.

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

David calls him ‘Lord’; how then can the Christ be his son?”

While all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a money-bag should take it, and also a traveling bag. And whoever doesn’t have a sword should sell his robe and buy one.

He went out and made his way as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

Being in anguish, he prayed more fervently, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Then one of them struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear.

“Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from his mouth?”

Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, mocked him, dressed him in bright clothing, and sent him back to Pilate.

The women who had come with him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how his body was placed.

And they remembered his words.

and when they didn’t find his body, they came and reported that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.

Having said this, he showed them his hands and feet.