Mark 8:17–38

¹⁷And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why ⁱreason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, ^jneither understand? have ye ^kyour heart yet hardened? ¹⁸Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? ¹⁹When I brake ^lthe five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. ²⁰And when ^mthe seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. ²¹And he said unto them, ^jHow is it that ye do not understand?

²²And he cometh to ⁿBethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him ^oto touch him. ²³And he ^ptook the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had ^qspit on his eyes, and ^oput his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. ²⁴And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. ²⁵After that he ^qqput his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. ²⁶And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go ^rinto the town, ^snor tell it to any in the town.

^27tAnd Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? ²⁸And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. ²⁹And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. ^30uAnd he ^xcharged them ^sthat they should tell no man of him. ³¹And ^yhe began to teach them, that the Son of man ^yymust suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. ³²And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. ³³But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men. ³⁴And when he had called ^zthe people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ³⁵For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. ³⁶For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? ³⁷Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? ³⁸Whosoever therefore ^ashall be ashamed of me and of my words in this ^badulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with ^cthe holy angels.