Mark 8
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1In those days, again there was a large crowd, and they did not have anything to eat; Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them, 2"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me now three days and do not have anything to eat. 3And if I send them away fasting to their homes, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come from far away." 4And his disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in the desert?" 5And he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven." 6And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground, and taking the seven loaves, having given thanks, he broke them and was giving them to his disciples so that they might set them before them; and they set them before the crowd. 7And they had a few small fish; and having blessed them, he commanded these also to be set before them. 8And they ate and were filled, and they took up a surplus of fragments, seven baskets. 9Now the ones eating were about four thousand; and he sent them away. 10And immediately stepping into the boat with his disciples, he came to the district of Dalmanutha. 11And the Pharisees came out and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, testing him. 12And sighing deeply in his spirit, he says, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I tell you, if a sign will be given to this generation!" 13And leaving them, stepping back into the boat, he went away to the other side. 14And they forgot to take loaves, and except for one loaf they had nothing with themselves in the boat. 15And he was warning them, saying, "See, watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." 16And they were reasoning with one another, saying, "It is because we have no loaves." 17And knowing this, Jesus says to them, "Why do you reason that it is because you have no loaves? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Do you still have your heart hardened? 18Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? 19When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?" They say to him, "Twelve." 20"And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of fragments did you take up?" And they say to him, "Seven." 21And he was saying to them, "How do you not yet understand?" 22And they come to Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man and beg him that he might touch him. 23And taking hold of the hand of the blind man, he led him out of the village, and having spit on his eyes, laying his hands on him, he was questioning him, "Do you see anything?" 24And having looked up, he said, "I behold people, for as trees I see them walking." 25Then again he laid his hands on his eyes, and he saw clearly, and was restored, and was looking at everything clearly. 26And he sent him away to his house, saying, "Neither enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village." 27And Jesus went out, and his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he was questioning his disciples, saying to them, "Who do people say that I am?" 28And they told him, saying, "John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but others, one of the prophets." 29And he asked them, "But you, who do you say that I am?" And answering, Peter says to him, "You are the Christ." 30And he strictly warned them that they should tell no one about him. 31And 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 killed, and after three days rise again. 32And he was speaking the word openly. And taking him aside, Peter began to rebuke him. 33But turning around and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and says, "Get behind me, Satan! Because you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men." 34And calling the crowd to himself with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake and for the gospel's will save it. 36For what does it profit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? 37For what will a person give in exchange for his life? 38For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
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