Tag: Jesus

Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 10:16-25 As Harmless As Doves

Thomas Less, February 22, 2011

¹⁶“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.¹⁷But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues.¹⁸You will stand trial before governors and kings because you are my followers. But this will be your opportunity to tell the rulers and other unbelievers about

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 10:9-15 Depend on God

Thomas Less, February 21, 2011

⁹“Don’t take any money in your money belts—no gold, silver, or even copper coins.¹⁰Don’t carry a traveler’s bag with a change of clothes and sandals or even a walking stick. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed.

¹¹“Whenever you enter a city or village, search for a worthy person and stay in his home until you leave town.¹²When

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 9: 18-34 It's a Miracle!

Thomas Less, February 17, 2011

¹⁸As Jesus was saying this, the leader of a synagogue came and knelt before him. “My daughter has just died,” he said, “but you can bring her back to life again if you just come and lay your hand on her.”

¹⁹So Jesus and his disciples got up and went with him.²⁰Just then a woman who had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding came up

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 9: 14-17 New wine in new wineskins

Thomas Less, February 16, 2011

¹⁴One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast like we do and the Pharisees do?”

¹⁵Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests mourn while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

¹⁶“Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 9: 9-13 Jesus calls notorious sinners

Thomas Less, February 15, 2011

⁹As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.

¹⁰Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners.¹¹But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Mattew 9: 1-8 Jesus has authority to forgive sins

Thomas Less, February 14, 2011

¹Jesus climbed into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town.²Some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “Be encouraged, my child! Your sins are forgiven.”

³But some of the teachers of religious law said to themselves, “That’s blasphemy! Does he think he’s God?”

⁴Jesus knew what they were

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 8: 28-33 Casting out demons

Thomas Less, February 13, 2011

²⁸When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gadarenes, two men who were possessed by demons met him. They lived in a cemetery and were so violent that no one could go through that area.

²⁹They began screaming at him, “Why are you interfering with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before God’s appointed time?”

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 8: 23-27 Jesus calms the storm

Thomas Less, February 12, 2011

²³Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples.²⁴Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.²⁵The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”

²⁶Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got up and rebuked the wind

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 8: 18-22 No Home For Jesus Here

Thomas Less, February 11, 2011

¹⁸When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he instructed his disciples to cross to the other side of the lake.

¹⁹Then one of the teachers of religious law said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

²⁰But Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place even to lay his head.”

²¹Another

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 8: 14-17 Jesus heals Peters mother-inlaw

Thomas Less, February 9, 2011

¹⁴When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, Peter’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever.¹⁵But when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left her. Then she got up and prepared a meal for him.

¹⁶That evening many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and he healed all the sick.¹⁷

This fulfilled the word of

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