Study Desk

He told them, "You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Jesus stopped, called them, and said, "What do you want me to do for you?"

and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, ‘ Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself '?"

But if we say, ‘From people,' we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet."

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

"The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, "Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet."'

For many are called, but few are chosen."

Show me the coin used for the tax." So they brought him a denarius.

"Teacher, Moses said, ‘ If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother .'

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her."

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,' for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.

And call no one your ‘father' on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.