Luke 9:1-27

Now when Yeshua called the twelve together, He gave them power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases. He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. And He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey—no walking stick, no travel bag, no bread, no money, nor even to have two shirts. Whatever house you enter, stay there and depart from there. And whoever does not receive you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a witness against them.” So they went out and began traveling throughout the villages, proclaiming the Good News and healing everywhere. Now Herod the tetrarch heard all that was happening. He was very confused, because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead, but others that Elijah had appeared, and others that some prophet from among the ancients had arisen. But Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he kept trying to see Him. When the emissaries returned, they described to Yeshua all they had done. Then He took them along and withdrew privately to a city named Bethsaida. But the crowds found out and followed Him. So Yeshua welcomed them and began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those in need of healing. Now the day began to wind down, and the twelve came and said to Yeshua, “Send the crowd away, so they might go into the nearby villages and countryside and find food and lodging; for we are in a desolate place here.” But Yeshua said to them, “You give them something to eat!” But they said, “We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish, unless we go to buy food for all these people.” For there were about five thousand men. Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “Have the people recline in groups of about fifty each.” They did so, and all reclined. And He took the five loaves and the two fish; and looking up to heaven, He offered the bracha and broke them. And He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd. Then they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of the fragments. Once when Yeshua was praying alone and His disciples were near, He put a question to them, saying, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” They replied, “John the Immerser, but others Elijah, and others that some prophet from among the ancients has arisen.” Then He said to them, “But who do you that say I am?” Then Peter answered and said, “The Messiah of God.” But Yeshua warned them, and He ordered them not to tell this to anyone, saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and ruling kohanim and Torah scholars, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” Then Yeshua was saying to everyone, “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross every day, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. “For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels. But I tell you truthfully, there are some standing here who will never taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”