Mark 8

Chapter 8

Four Thousand Fed

¹In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, ^aJesus called His disciples and said to them,

²“^aI feel compassion for the ¹people because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat.

³“If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from a great distance.”

⁴And His disciples answered Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough ¹bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

⁵And He was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”

⁶And He directed the ¹people to ²sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and started giving them to His disciples to ³serve to them, and they served them to the people.

⁷They also had a few small fish; and ^aafter He had blessed them, He ordered these to be ¹served as well.

⁸And they ate and were satisfied; and they picked up seven large ^abaskets full of what was left over of the broken pieces.

⁹About four thousand were there; and He sent them away.

¹⁰And immediately He entered the boat with His disciples and came to the district of ^aDalmanutha.

^11aThe Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, ^bseeking from Him a ¹sign from heaven, ²to test Him.

^12aSighing deeply ¹in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation seek for a ²sign? Truly I say to you, ^3bno sign will be given to this generation.”

¹³Leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.

¹⁴And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

¹⁵And He was giving orders to them, saying, “^aWatch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of ^bHerod.”

¹⁶They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.

¹⁷And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? ^aDo you not yet see or understand? Do you have a ¹hardened heart?

¹⁸“^aHaving eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember,

¹⁹when I broke ^athe five loaves for the five thousand, how many ^bbaskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They said to Him, “Twelve.”

²⁰“When I broke ^athe seven for the four thousand, how many large ^bbaskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they said to Him, “Seven.”

²¹And He was saying to them, “^aDo you not yet understand?”

²²And they came to ^aBethsaida. And they brought a blind man to Jesus and implored Him to ^btouch him.

²³Taking the blind man by the hand, He ^abrought him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and ^blaying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

²⁴And he ¹looked up and said, “I see men, for ²I see them like trees, walking around.”

²⁵Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

²⁶And He sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter ^athe village.”

Peter’s Confession of Christ

^27aJesus went out, along with His disciples, to the villages of ^bCaesarea Philippi; and on the way He questioned His disciples, saying to them, “Who do people say that I am?”

^28aThey told Him, saying, “John the Baptist; and others say Elijah; but others, one of the prophets.”

²⁹And He continued by questioning them, “But who do you say that I am?” ^aPeter answered and said to Him, “You are ¹the Christ.”

³⁰And ^aHe ¹warned them to tell no one about Him.

^31aAnd He began to teach them that ^bthe Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

³²And He was stating the matter ^aplainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

³³But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, ^aSatan; for you are not setting your mind on ¹God’s interests, but man’s.”

³⁴And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and ^atake up his cross and follow Me.

³⁵“For ^awhoever wishes to save his ¹life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

³⁶“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

³⁷“For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

³⁸“For ^awhoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, ^bthe Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He ^ccomes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”