Mark 8:16-38 ▼

16 And they were reasoning with one another because they had no loaves.

17 And having known, He says to them, “Why do you? reason that you? have no loaves? Do you? not yet perceive, nor do you? understand? Do you? have your? heart hardened?

18 ‘Having eyes, do you? not see? And having ears, do you? not hear?’ And do you? not remember?

19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of fragments did you? take up?” They say to Him, “Twelve.”

20 “When also the seven were for the four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you? take up?” And they said, “Seven.”

21 And He was saying to them, “Do you? not yet understand?”

22 And they come to Bethsaida. And they bring to Him a blind man and implore Him that He might touch him.

23 And having taken hold of the hand of the blind man, He led him forth outside of the village. And having spit upon his eyes, having laid the hands upon him, He was asking him, “Do you see anything?”

24 And having looked up, he was saying, “I see the men, because I see them as trees walking.”

25 Then He laid the hands upon his eyes again, and he opened his eyes, and he was restored, and he was seeing everything clearly.

26 And He sent him to his house, saying, “Do not enter into the village.”

27 And Jesus and His disciples went out into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way, He was questioning His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say I am?”

28 And they spoke to Him, saying, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”

29 And He was questioning them, “But you?, who do you? say I am?” Answering, Peter says to Him, “You are the Christ.”

30 And He warned them that they should tell no one concerning Him.

31 And He began to teach them that it is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise again.

32 And He was speaking openly the word. And Peter, having taken Him aside, began to rebuke Him.

33 But having turned and having seen His disciples, He rebuked Peter, and He says, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

34 And having summoned the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

35 For whoever may want to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life on account of Me and of the gospel, he will save it.

36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and to lose his soul?

37 For what shall a man give as an exchange for his soul?

38 For whoever may be ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when He shall come in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”