Mark 8:27-38 ▼

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

28 They answered: John the Immerser; and others, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.

29 And he said to them: But who say you that I am? Peter answered and said to him: Thou art the Christ.

30 And he charged them to tell no one concerning him.

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

32 And he spoke this saying plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

33 But he turned about, and, looking on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying: Get behind me, adversary: for you are not thinking of the things of God, but of the things of men.

34 And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them: Whoever determines to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

35 For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, shall save it.

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

37 Or, what will a man give as a ransom for his life?

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