Mark 8

Feeding the Four Thousand

1In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, 2#Mt 9.36“I have compassion for the crowd because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. 3If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way—and some of them have come from a great distance.” 4His disciples replied, “How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?” 5#Mk 6.38He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” 6Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. 7#Mt 14.19; Mk 6.41They had also a few small fish, and after blessing them he ordered that these, too, should be distributed. 8They ate and were filled, and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. 9Now there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. 10And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.#8.10 Other ancient authorities read Mageda or Magdala

The Demand for a Sign

11 # Mt 12.38, 39; Lk 11.29; Jn 6.30 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, to test him. 12#Mk 7.34And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.” 13And he left them, and getting into the boat again he went across to the other side.

The Yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod

14Now the disciples#8.14 Gk they had forgotten to bring any bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. 15#Mk 12.13; 16.4; Lk 12.1And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out—beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”#8.15 Other ancient authorities read the Herodians 16They said to one another, “It is because we have no bread.” 17#Isa 6.9, 10; Mk 6.52And 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? 18Do you have eyes and fail to see? Do you have ears and fail to hear? And do you not remember? 19#Mt 14.20; Mk 6.43; Lk 9.17; Jn 6.13When 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#vv 6–9; Mt 15.37“And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?” And they said to him, “Seven.” 21#Mk 6.52Then he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

Jesus Cures a Blind Man at Bethsaida

22 # Mt 11.21; Mk 6.45; Lk 9.10 They came to Bethsaida. Some people#8.22 Gk They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. 23#Mk 5.23; 7.33He 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?” 24And the man#8.24 Gk he looked up and said, “I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 25Then Jesus#8.25 Gk he laid his hands on his eyes again, and he looked intently, and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26#Mt 8.4Then he sent him away to his home, saying, “Do not even go into the village.”#8.26 Other ancient authorities add or tell anyone in the village

Peter’s Declaration about Jesus

27 # Jn 6.66–69 Jesus 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#Mk 6.14And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 29#Jn 6.69; 11.27He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”#8.29 Or the Christ 30#Mk 9.9And 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. 32#Jn 18.20He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33#Mt 4.10But 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.”

34 # Mt 10.38; Lk 14.27 He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come#8.34 Other ancient authorities read follow after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35#Mt 10.39; Lk 17.33; Jn 12.25For 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,#8.35 Other ancient authorities read lose their life for the sake of the gospel will save it. 36For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? 38#Mt 8.20; 10.33; Mk 13.26; Lk 12.9Those who are ashamed of me and of my words#8.38 Other ancient authorities read and of mine 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.”

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