Mark 8:19-38 ▼

19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did ye take up? They answer, Twelve.

20 And when I divided the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? and they said, Seven.

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

22 Then He cometh to Bethsaida, where they brought to Him a blind man, and begged of Him that He would touch him.

23 And He took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and having spit on his eyes, He laid his hands upon him, and asked him, If he saw any thing.

24 And he looked up, and said, I see men (as it were trees) walking.

25 Then He put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored to sight, and saw them all plainly.

26 And He sent him away to his house, and said, Neither go into the town, nor tell any one in the town.

27 Then Jesus and his disciples went out into the towns of Cesarea Philippi: and by the way He asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I am?

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

29 And He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answered and saith, Thou art the Christ.

30 And He charged them, that they should say this to no one concerning Him:

31 and began to tell them, that the Son of man must suffer much; and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes; and be put to death: and after three days rise again.

32 And this He spake plainly and openly. Upon which Peter began to rebuke Him.

33 But He turned about and looking on his disciples reproved Peter, saying, Get thee behind me Satan; for thou savourest not the things of God, but the things that be of men.

34 And calling the people and his disciples to Him, He said unto them, Whosoever is willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me:

35 for he that would save his life, shall lose it; but he that would lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, shall save it.

36 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

37 or what shall a man give as a ransom for his soul?

38 for whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this degenerate and sinful age, of him will the Son of man be also ashamed, when He cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels.