Study Desk

"And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this restraint on the Sabbath day?"

"It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."

"It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened."

And someone said to Him, "Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?" And He said to them,

"Nevertheless I must go on My journey today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside Jerusalem.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, and you were unwilling!

And there in front of Him was a man suffering from edema.

And He said to them, "Which one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"

Now He began telling a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,

"Whenever you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,

Now He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, "Whenever you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor wealthy neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you to a meal in return, and that will be your repayment.

"But whenever you give a banquet, invite people who are poor, who have disabilities, who are limping, and people who are blind;

But He said to him, "A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;

"And yet they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, 'I purchased a field and I need to go out to look at it; please consider me excused.'

"And another one said, 'I took a woman as my wife, and for that reason I cannot come.'

"For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

"Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who are watching it will begin to ridicule him,

"Otherwise, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and requests terms of peace.

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the other ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

"Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?