1 In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them,
2 "I have compassion on the multitude because they have now been with Me 3 days and have nothing to eat,
3 and if I send them away to their own houses without eating, they'll faint on the way, for some of them came from far away."
4 And His disciples answered Him, "Where can anyone get enough bread here in the desert to satisfy these people?"
5 And He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven."
6 And He told the people to sit down on the ground, and He took the 7 loaves, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to His disciples to serve them. And they served them to the people.
7 And they had a few small fish, and He blessed these, and said to also set them before them.
8 So they ate and were filled, and they picked up 7 baskets of the broken food that was left.
9 And those who had eaten were about 4,000. And He sent them away.
10 And immediately He entered into a ship with His disciples and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
11 And the Pharisees came out and began to examine Him, seeking a sign from Heaven from Him, testing Him.
12 And He sighed deeply in His Spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek after a sign? Truly I say to you, that no sign shall be given to this generation."
13 And He left them and, entering into the ship again, went to the other side.
14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they had no more than one loaf in the ship with them.
15 And He cautioned them, "Observe and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod."
16 And they discussed this among themselves saying, "It is because we have no bread."
17 And when Jesus knew it, He said to them, "Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Don't you see or understand yet? Are your innermost minds still hardened?
18 Having eyes, don't you see? And having ears, don't you hear? And don't you remember?
19 How many baskets full of fragments did you pick up when I broke the 5 loaves among 5,000?" They said to Him, "12."
20 "And when I broke the 7 loaves among 4,000 people, how many baskets full of fragments did you pick up?" And they said, "7."
21 And He said to them, "How is it that you don't understand?"
22 And He came to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to Him and begged Him to touch him.
23 And He took the blind man by the hand and led Him out of the town, and, when He had spit on His eyes and laid His Hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.
24 And he looked up, and said, "I see people as trees walking."
25 After that He laid His Hands on his eyes again and made him look up, and he was restored and saw every person clearly.
26 And He sent him away to his house saying, "Neither go into the town nor tell it to anyone in the town."
27 And Jesus and His disciples went out into the towns of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way He asked His disciples, "Whom do people say that I am?"
28 And they answered, "John the Baptist, but some say, Elias, and others, one of the prophets."
29 And He said to them, "But whom do you say that I am?" And Peter answered and said to Him, "You are the Christ."
30 And He told them that they should tell no one about Him.
31 And He began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and by the chief priests and scribes and be killed and, after 3 days, rise again.
32 And He spoke that utterance openly. And Peter took Him and began to rebuke Him.
33 But when He had turned about and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan, for you do not savor the things that are of God but the things that are of men." *
34 And when He had called the people to Him with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let that person deny self and take up their cross and follow Me.
35 For whoever desires to save their soul/mind shall lose it, but whoever shall lose their soul/mind for My sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
36 For what shall it profit a person if they shall gain the whole world and lose their own soul/mind?
37 Or what shall a person give in exchange for their soul/mind?
38 Whoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My utterances in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man shall also be ashamed of him, when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."