Study Desk

Then Jesus said to them, "Stop being afraid! Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and there they will see me."John 20:17; Romans 8:29; Hebrews 2:11;">[xr]

So they met with the elders and agreed on a plan to give the soldiers a largea sufficient">[fn] amount of money.

They said, "Say that his disciples came at night and stole him while you were sleeping.

So the soldiersthey">[fn] took the money and did as they were instructed. This story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

People fromPeople from">[fn] the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, being baptized by him while they confessed their sins.Matthew 3:5;">[xr]

While Jesushe">[fn] was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were throwing a net into the sea because they were fishermen.Matthew 4:18; Luke 5:4;">[xr]

So immediately they left their nets and followed him.Matthew 19:27; Luke 5:11;">[xr]

Going on a little farther he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat repairing their nets.Matthew 4:21;">[xr]

He immediately called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbath,Sabbaths">[fn] Jesushe">[fn] went into the synagogue and began to teach.Matthew 4:13; Luke 4:31;">[xr]

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

After they left the synagogue, they went directly to the house of Simon and Andrew, along with James and John.Matthew 8:14; Luke 4:38;">[xr]

He healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. However, he wouldn't allow the demons to speak because they knew who he was.Mark 3:12; Luke 4:41; Acts 16:17-18;">[xr]

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the cot on which the paralyzed man was lying.

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drinkand drink">[fn] with tax collectors and sinners?"

But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day."

Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"Matthew 14:33; Mark 1:1,23-24; Luke 4:41;">[xr]

Then Jesushe">[fn] went up on a hillside and called to him those whom he wanted and they came to him.Matthew 10:1; Luke 6:12; 9:1;">[xr]

Then he went home. The crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciplesso that they">[fn] couldn't even eat.Mark 6:31;">[xr]