Study Desk

You didn't greet me with a kiss, but from the time I came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet.

You didn't even pour olive oil on my head, but she has poured expensive perfume on my feet.

So I tell you that all her sins are forgiven, and that is why she has shown great love. But anyone who has been forgiven for only a little will show only a little love."

But Jesus told the woman, "Because of your faith, you are now saved. May God give you peace!"

Other seeds fell on rocky ground and started growing. But the plants did not have enough water and soon dried up.

So he answered: I have explained the secrets about God's kingdom to you, but for others I can only use stories. These people look, but they don't see, and they hear, but they don't understand.

and the seeds that fell along the road are the people who hear the message. But the devil comes and snatches the message out of their hearts, so that they will not believe and be saved.

The seeds that fell on rocky ground are the people who gladly hear the message and accept it. But they don't have deep roots, and they believe only for a little while. As soon as life gets hard, they give up.

The seeds that fell among the thornbushes are also people who hear the message. But they are so eager for riches and pleasures that they never produce anything.

Pay attention to how you listen! Everyone who has something will be given more, but people who have nothing will lose what little they think they have.

Jesus' mother and brothers went to see him, but because of the crowd they could not get near him.

Then Jesus asked the disciples, "Don't you have any faith?" But they were frightened and amazed. They said to each other, "Who is this? He can give orders to the wind and the waves, and they obey him!"

As Jesus was getting out of the boat, he was met by a man from that town. The man had demons in him. He had gone naked for a long time and no longer lived in a house, but in the graveyard.

The people went out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they also found the man. The demons had gone out of him, and he was sitting there at the feet of Jesus. He had clothes on and was in his right mind. But the people were terrified.

the man who had been healed begged to go with him. But Jesus sent him off and said,

In the crowd was a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years. She had spent everything she had on doctors, but none of them could make her well.

But Jesus answered, "Someone touched me, because I felt power going out from me."

Jesus went into the house, but he did not let anyone else go with him, except Peter, John, James, and the girl's father and mother.

Everyone was crying and weeping for the girl. But Jesus said, "The child isn't dead. She is just asleep."

Her parents were surprised, but Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.