Mark 8:17–38

¹⁷And becoming aware of it, Jesus said to them, “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?^{* 18}Do you have eyes and fail to see? Do you have ears and fail to hear? And do you not remember? ¹⁹When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?” They said to him, “Twelve.”^{* 20}“And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?” And they said to him, “Seven.”^{* 21}Then he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”^*

Jesus Cures a Blind Man at Bethsaida

²²They came to Bethsaida. Some people^h brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.^{* 23}He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Can you see anything?”^{* 24}And the manⁱ looked up and said, “I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.” ²⁵Then Jesus^j laid his hands on his eyes again, and he looked intently, and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. ²⁶Then he sent him away to his home, saying, “Do not even go into the village.”^k*

Peter’s Declaration about Jesus

²⁷Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”^{* 28}And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”^{* 29}He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”^{l* 30}And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.^*

Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection

³¹Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again. ³²He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.^{* 33}But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”^*

³⁴He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come^m after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.^{* 35}For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel,ⁿ will save it.^{* 36}For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? ³⁷Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? ³⁸Those who are ashamed of me and of my words^o in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”^*