Study Desk

When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. "Child, why have You done this to us?" His mother asked. "Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You."

Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was subject to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn. But He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother's wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was known as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

For it is written: 'He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully;

Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,

All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His lips. "Isn't this the son of Joseph?" they asked.

Then He added, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

But Jesus passed through the crowd and went on His way.

They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.

At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them.

For he and his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,

and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. "Do not be afraid," Jesus said to Simon, "from now on you will catch men."

Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. "I am willing," He said. "Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him.

but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.

One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.

Jesus replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?