Study Desk

“Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies

A crowd was sitting around him and told him, “Look, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside asking for you.”

For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed,

For whoever has, more will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle,

For he had told him, “Come out of the man, you unclean

So he went out and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and they were all amazed.

Now a woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years

For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I’ll be made well.”

He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a staff—no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts,

For Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.

John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

An opportune time came on his birthday, when Herod gave a banquet for his nobles, military commanders, and the leading men of Galilee.

She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?”

The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John’s head. So he went and beheaded him in prison,

He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest for a while.”

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders.

For Moses

“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach