Mark

In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them:

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat."

"And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for some of them came from a distance."

And his disciples answered Him, "From where can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?"

He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven."

He directed the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude.

And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.

So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

And immediately he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation."

And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.

Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

Then He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have no bread."

And when Jesus knew it, He says to them, "Why do you reason because you have no bread? do you not yet perceive, nor understand? have you your heart yet hardened?"

"Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? and do you not remember?"

"When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?" They said to Him, "Twelve."

"Also, when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?" And they said, "Seven."

And He said to them, "How is it that you do not understand?"

And he comes to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man to him, and besought him to touch him.

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 put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.

And he looked up, and said, "I see men as trees, walking."

After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

And He sent him away to his house, saying, "Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town."

And Jesus went out, and His disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way He asked His disciples, saying to them, "Whom do men say that I am?"

And they answered, "John the Baptist: but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets."

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to Him, "You are the Christ."

And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

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

And he spoke that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

But when He had turned around and looked on His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, "Get you behind Me, Satan: for you savour not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men."

When He had called the multitude to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me."

"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it."

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

"Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

"For whoever is 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."