Mark 8:19-38 ▼

19 When I brake the fiue loaues among fiue thousand, how many baskets full of broken meate tooke ye vp? They said vnto him, Twelue.

20 And when I brake seuen among foure thousande, howe many baskets of the leauings of broken meate tooke ye vp? And they said, Seuen.

21 Then he saide vnto them, Howe is it that ye vnderstand not?

22 And hee came to Bethsaida, and they brought a blinde man vnto him, and desired him to touch him.

23 Then he tooke the blinde by the hand, and ledde him out of the towne, and spat in his eyes, and put his handes vpon him, and asked him, if he sawe ought.

24 And he looked vp, and said, I see men: for I see them walking like trees.

25 After that, he put his hands againe vpon his eyes, and made him looke againe; hee was restored to his sight, and sawe euery man a farre off clearely.

26 And hee sent him home to his house, saying, Neither goe into the towne, nor tell it to any in the towne.

27 And Iesus went out, and his disciples into the townes of Cesarea Philippi; by the way hee asked his disciples, saying vnto them, Whome doe men say that I am?

28 And they answered, Some say, Iohn Baptist: and some, Elias: and some, one of the Prophets.

29 And he said vnto them, But whome say ye that I am? Then Peter answered, and saide vnto him, Thou art that Christ.

30 And he sharpely charged them, that concerning him they should tell no man.

31 Then hee began to teache them that the Sonne of man must suffer many things, and should be reproued of the Elders, and of the hie Priestes, and of the Scribes, and be slaine, and within three dayes rise againe.

32 And he spake that thing boldly. Then Peter tooke him aside, and began to rebuke him.

33 Then he turned backe, & looked on his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behinde me, Satan: for thou vnderstandest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.

34 And hee called the people vnto him with his disciples, and saide vnto them, Whosoeuer will followe me, let him forsake himselfe, and take vp his crosse, and follow me.

35 For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: but whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels, he shall saue it.

36 For what shall it profite a man, though he should winne the whole world, if he lose his soule?

37 Or what exchange shall a man giue for his soule?

38 For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.