Luke [White-light] 9:5-25

⁵As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

⁶They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere.

⁷Now Herod Heroic the tetrarch (one of four co-emperors) heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John Yah is gracious had risen from the dead,

⁸and by some that Elijah My God Yah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

⁹Herod Heroic said, “John Yah is gracious I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

¹⁰The apostles, when they had teshuvah ·completely returned·, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.

¹¹But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.

¹²The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

¹³But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

¹⁴For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

¹⁵They did so, and made them all sit down.

¹⁶He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

¹⁷They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

¹⁸As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

¹⁹They answered, “‘John Yah is gracious the Immerser,’ but others say, ‘Elijah My God Yah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again.”

²⁰He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter Rock answered, “The Messiah Anointed one of God.”

²¹But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,

²²saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and Torah-Teachers, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

²³He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his execution-stake, and follow me.

²⁴For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

²⁵For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?