Mark 8
8
Jesus Feeds Four Thousand
1During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples over and told them, 2“I’m very concerned for these people. They’ve already been with me for three days, and they’ve run out of things to eat. 3I don’t want to send them away hungry, because if I do, they may be too weak to make it back home. I know that some of them have come a long way.”
4His disciples answered, “We’re in the middle of nowhere. Where could we get enough bread to feed this large crowd?”
5“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked.
“Seven,” they replied.
6He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. He picked up the seven loaves and gave thanks to God, and then he broke them and gave them to his disciples. They passed the pieces of bread around to the people. 7The disciples also had a few small fish, so Jesus gave thanks for them and told his disciples to pass them around too. 8Everyone ate as much as they needed, and after that, the disciples picked up seven full baskets of leftover pieces. 9Just counting the men, 4,000 people were fed. Then Jesus sent the crowd away 10and got into a boat with his disciples. They went to the area of Dalmanutha.
11The Pharisees came and began to ask Jesus questions. They wanted to test him, so they asked him for a sign from heaven. 12He sighed deeply and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, it won’t be given any sign.” 13Then he left them, got back into the boat, and crossed over to the other side of the lake.
The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod
14The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. 15“Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
16The disciples talked this over among themselves and decided, “He must be saying that because we didn’t bring any bread.”
17Jesus knew what they were saying, and he asked them, “Why are you talking about not having any bread? Why can’t you see or understand? Is it because you don’t want to? 18Do you have eyes that still don’t see, and ears that still don’t hear? Don’t you remember? 19When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?”
“Twelve,” they answered.
20“Later I broke seven loaves for the 4,000. How many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?”
“Seven,” they replied.
21He said to them, “Don’t you understand yet?”
Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida
22Jesus came with his disciples to Bethsaida, and there some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him. 23He took him by the hand and led him outside the village. Then he spit on the man’s eyes and placed his hands on him. “Do you see anything?” Jesus asked.
24The man looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees walking around.”
25Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes again, and when he opened his eyes wide, his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly. 26Jesus sent him straight home, telling him, “Don’t even go into the village.”
Peter Says That Jesus Is the Messiah
27Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
28They answered, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others say one of the prophets.”
29“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”
30Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
Jesus Tells About His Coming Death
31Jesus then began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man would have to suffer a lot. He told them that the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law would reject him. He said that he would be killed, but that after three days he would rise again. 32He explained all this clearly. But Peter took him to one side and started to berate him.
33Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, and then he firmly put Peter in his place. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You’re not thinking about what God wants. You’re only thinking about what people want.”
You Must Pick Up Your Cross
34Jesus called the crowd to him, along with his disciples, and he said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple has to deny themselves, pick up their cross, and follow me. 35Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the good news will save it. 36What good is it if someone gains the whole world but loses their soul? 37What can anyone trade for their soul? 38If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
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St Mark 8
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1IN those days again, when there was a great multitude, and had nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them:
2I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat.
3And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; for some of them came from afar off.
4And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?
5And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? Who said: Seven.
6And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke, and gave to his disciples for to set before them; and they set them before the people.
7And they had a few little fishes; and he blessed them, and commanded them to be set before them.
8And they did eat and were filled; and they took up that which was left of the fragments, seven baskets.
9And they that had eaten were about four thousand; and he sent them away.
10And immediately going up into a ship with his disciples, he came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
11And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, asking him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
12And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why doth this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this generation.
13And leaving them, he went up again into the ship, and passed to the other side of the water.
14And they forgot to take bread; and they had but one loaf with them in the ship.
15And he charged them, saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
16And they reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we have no bread.
17Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because you have no bread? do you not yet know nor understand? have you still your heart blinded?
18Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? neither do you remember.
19When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him, Twelve.
20When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up? And they say to him, Seven.
21And he said to them: How do you not yet understand?
22And they came to Bethsaida; and they bring to him a blind man, and they besought him that he would touch him.
23And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town; and spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he saw any thing.
24And looking up, he said: I see men as it were trees, walking.
25After that again he laid his hands upon his eyes, and he began to see, and was restored, so that he saw all things clearly.
26And he sent him into his house, saying: Go into thy house, and if thou enter into the town, tell nobody.
27And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi. And in the way, he asked his disciples, saying to them: Whom do men say that I am?
28Who answered him, saying: John the Baptist; but some Elias, and others as one of the prophets.
29Then he saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Peter answering said to him: Thou art the Christ.
30And he strictly charged them that they should not tell any man of him.
31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests, and the scribes, and be killed: and after three days rise again.
32And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him.
33Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, saying: Go behind me, Satan, because thou savorest not the things that are of God, but that are of men.
34And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.
36For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
37Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
38For he that shall be ashamed of me, and of 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.
39And he said to them: Amen I say to you, that there are some of them that stand here, who shall not taste death, till they see the kingdom of God coming in power.
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