Mark 8:17-38 ▼

17 And Jesus knowing it said unto them, Why reason ye together, because ye have no loaves? Do ye not yet consider, nor understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?

18 Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

19 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

20 And when the seven loaves among the four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They said, Seven.

21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring him a blind man, and entreat him that he would touch him.

23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him without the city; and spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands upon him, and asked him if he saw aught.

24 And looking up, he said, I see men walking, as trees.

25 Then again he put his hands upon his eyes, and made him look up again: and he was entirely restored, and saw all men distinctly.

26 And he sent him away unto his own house, saying, Neither enter thou into the city, nor speak to any in the city.

27 And Jesus and his disciples went out into the towns of Cæsarea Philippi: and on the road he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Who do men say that I am?

28 And they answered, John the Baptist: others say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.

29 And he said unto them, But who do ye say that I am? Then Peter answering, said unto him, Thou art the Messiah.

30 And he strictly enjoined them, that they should tell no man of this.

31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be slain, and after three days rise again.

32 And he spake this saying openly. And Peter taking him aside, began to remonstrate with him.

33 But he turned himself around, and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou dost not relish the things which are of God, but those that are of men.

34 Then calling to him the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

35 For whosoever would preserve his life shall lose it; but whosoever would lose his life for my sake and the Gospel, he shall preserve it.

36 For what would it profit a man, though he should gain the whole world, if he be punished with the loss of his own soul?

37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

38 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, before this adulterous and sinful generation; of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he shall come in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels.