Mark 8:13-23

¹³So he left them to themselves, and, getting into the boat again, went away to the opposite shore.

¹⁴Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread with them, one loaf being all that they had in the boat.

¹⁵So Jesus gave them this warning. “Take care,” he said, “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

¹⁶They began talking to one another about their being short of bread;

¹⁷and, noticing this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you talking about your being short of bread? Don't you yet see or understand? Are your minds still so slow or comprehension?

¹⁸Though you have eyes, do you not see? And though you have ears, do you not hear? Don't you remember,

¹⁹when I broke up the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces you picked up?” “Twelve,” they said.

²⁰“And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you pick up?” “Seven,” they said.

²¹“Don't you understand now?” he repeated.

²²They came to Bethsaida. There some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and begged him to touch him.

²³Taking the blind man's hand, Jesus led him to the outskirts of the village, and, when he had put saliva on the man's eyes, he placed his hands on him, and asked him, “Do you see anything?”