Study Desk

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

"You must be prepared for action and your lamps burning.

And you, be like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that when he comes back and knocks, they can open the door for him immediately.

Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he returns! Truly I say to you that he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table and will come by and serve them.

And Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us, or also for everyone?"

But the one who did not know and did things deserving blows will be given a light beating. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be demanded, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him for even more.

For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three.

And why do you not also judge for yourselves what is right?

For as you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to come to a settlement with him on the way, so that he will not drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison.

And he told this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

So he said to the gardener, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find any. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'

And behold, a woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to straighten herself up completely.

when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us!' And he will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from!'

Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to be on the way today and tomorrow and on the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.

Now he told a parable to those who had been invited when he noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them,

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous."

And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and for this reason I am not able to come.'

For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!'"

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