Mark 8:17-37

¹⁷And Jesus having known, saith to them, 'Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?

¹⁸Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

¹⁹When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, 'Twelve.'

²⁰'And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' and they said, 'Seven.'

²¹And he said to them, 'How do ye not understand?'

²²And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring to him one blind, and call upon him that he may touch him,

²³and having taken the hand of the blind man, he led him forth without the village, and having spit on his eyes, having put his hands on him, he was questioning him if he doth behold anything:

²⁴and he, having looked up, said, 'I behold men, as I see trees, walking.'

²⁵Afterwards again he put his hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,

²⁶and he sent him away to his house, saying, 'Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell it to any in the village.'

²⁷And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and in the way he was questioning his disciples, saying to them, 'Who do men say me to be?'

²⁸And they answered, 'John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.'

²⁹And he saith to them, 'And ye — who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering saith to him, 'Thou art the Christ.'

³⁰And he strictly charged them that they may tell no one about it,

³¹and began to teach them, that it behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise again;

³²and openly he was speaking the word. And Peter having taken him aside, began to rebuke him,

³³and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, 'Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

³⁴And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, 'Whoever doth will to come after me — let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me;

³⁵for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

³⁶for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

³⁷Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?