Luke 9:5-25

⁵And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness against them.

⁶And going forth they passed through the villages, announcing the glad tidings and healing everywhere.

⁷And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done by him, and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among the dead,

⁸and by some that Elias had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

⁹And Herod said, John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.

¹⁰And the apostles having returned related to him whatever they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart into a desert place of a city called Bethsaida.

¹¹But the crowds knowing it followed him; and he received them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those that had need of healing.

¹²But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages around, and into the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for here we are in a desert place.

¹³And he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we should go and buy food for all this people;

¹⁴for they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down in companies by fifties.

¹⁵And they did so, and made them all sit down.

¹⁶And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven he blessed them, and broke and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.

¹⁷And they all ate and were filled; and there was taken up of what had remained over and above to them in fragments twelve hand-baskets.

¹⁸And it came to pass as he was praying alone, his disciples were with him, and he asked them saying, Who do the crowds say that I am?

¹⁹But they answering said, John the baptist; but others, Elias; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.

²⁰And he said to them, But ye, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

²¹But, earnestly charging them, he enjoined them to say this to no man,

²²saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

²³And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;

²⁴for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it.

²⁵For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?