Mark 8:17–38

¹⁷But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? ^kDo you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart ³still hardened? ¹⁸Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? ^19lWhen I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?”

They said to Him, “Twelve.”

²⁰“Also, ^mwhen I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?”

And they said, “Seven.”

²¹So He said to them, “How is it ⁿyou do not understand?”

A Blind Man is Healed

²²Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a ^oblind man to Him, and begged Him to ^ptouch him. ²³So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when ^qHe had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.

²⁴And he looked up and said, “I see men like trees, walking.”

²⁵Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly. ²⁶Then He sent him away to his house, saying, ⁴ “Neither go into the town, ^rnor tell anyone in the town.”

Peter’s Confession of Christ

Matt. 16:13–23; Luke 9:18–22

^27sNow Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say that I am?”

²⁸So they answered, ^t“John the Baptist; but some say, ^uElijah; and others, one of the prophets.”

²⁹He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

Peter answered and said to Him, ^v“You are the Christ.”

^30wThen He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him.

³¹And ^xHe began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be ^yrejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be ^zkilled, and after three days rise again. ³²He spoke this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. ³³But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He ^arebuked Peter, saying, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not ⁵mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

Cost of Discipleship

Matt. 16:24–27; Luke 9:22–26

³⁴When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, ^b“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. ³⁵For ^cwhoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. ³⁶For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? ³⁷Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? ^38dFor whoever ^eis ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”