Study Desk

“Therefore be alert, because you don’t know either the day or the hour.

Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will fall away because of me, for it is written:

Peter told him, “Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.”

And he came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open.

Then Jesus told him, “Put your sword back in its place because all who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

For he knew it was because of envy that they had handed him over.

While he was sitting on the judge’s bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I’ve suffered terribly in a dream because of him.”

There was a violent earthquake, because an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He rolled back the stone and was sitting on it.

The angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.

They were astonished at his teaching because he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

and he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to him because they heard about everything he was doing.

When his family heard this, they set out to restrain him, because they said, “He’s out of his mind.”

because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had torn the chains apart and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

King Herod heard about it, because Jesus’s name had become well known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that’s why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

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.

because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing he was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him he would be very perplexed, and yet he liked to listen to him.

Although the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests he did not want to refuse her.