Mark 8:10-27

¹⁰Immediately he got into the boat with his disciples, and they went into the region of Dalmanutha.

¹¹Then the Pharisees came out and began to argue with him. They sought from him a sign from heaven, to test him.

¹²He sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek for a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

¹³Then he left them, got into a boat again, and went away to the other side.

¹⁴Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread with them. They had no more than one loaf of bread in the boat.

¹⁵He warned them and said, “Keep watch and be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

¹⁶The disciples reasoned with each other, “It is because we have no bread.”

¹⁷Jesus was aware of this, and he said to them, “Why are you reasoning about not having bread? Do you not yet perceive? Do you not understand? Have your hearts become so dull?

¹⁸You have eyes, do you not see? You have ears, do you not hear? Do you not remember?

¹⁹When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces of bread did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”

²⁰“When I broke the seven loaves among the four thousand, how many basketfuls did you take up?” They said to him, “Seven.”

²¹He said, “Do you not yet understand?”

²²They came to Bethsaida. The people there brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

²³Jesus took hold of the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”

²⁴He looked up, and said, “I see men who look like walking trees.”

²⁵Then he again laid his hands upon his eyes, and the man opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw all things clearly.

²⁶Jesus sent him away to his home and said, “Do not enter the town.”

²⁷Jesus went out with his disciples into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do the people say that I am?”