[Mark 8]

 

             {Mar 8:1-9 & Mat 15:32-38.}

             ^8:1 The crowd being enormous in those days, and they do not have what they might eat {i.e., they have nothing to eat}. Jesus called to him his disciples and says to them, ^8:2 I have compassion upon the crowd, because they already remain with me for three days and do not have what they might eat. ^8:3 And if I dismiss them starving to their house, they will faint on the road; for^* some of them are coming from far away.

             ^8:4 And his disciples answered him, From where will anyone be able to fully-feed these men bread here in the wilderness?

             ^8:5 And he was asking them, How-many loaves do you^° have?

             Now they said, Seven.

             ^8:6 And he commanded the crowd to lean-back upon the soil. And he took the seven loaves, and gave-thanks, broke them and was giving them to his disciples in-order-that they might place them beside them, and they placed them beside the crowd. ^8:7 And they were holding a few small-fish, and he gave-thanks and said to his disciples to also place these beside them. ^8:8 Now they ate and were fully-fed, and they took up abundances of broken pieces, seven baskets. ^8:9 Now the ones who ate were approximately four thousand, and he dismissed them.

 

             {Mar 8:10-26 & Mat 15:39-16:12 Near Caesarea Philippi Summer 29 AD.}

             ^8:10 And immediately he stepped into the ship with his disciples and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

 

             ^8:11 And the Pharisees came forth and began to debate together-with him, seeking from him a sign from the heaven, testing him. ^8:12 And he groaned deeply in his spirit and says, Why is this generation seeking a sign? Assuredly I am saying to you^°, As if a sign will be given to this generation. ^8:13 And he left them and again stepped onto a ship, and went away to the other-side.

 

             ^8:14 And they forgot to take bread, and they did not have any bread, except one loaf in the ship with themselves. ^8:15 And he was ordering them, saying, Behold^° and beware^° stay away from the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

             ^8:16 And they were reasoning with one another, saying, We have no bread.

             ^8:17 And Jesus knew it and says to them, Why are you^° reasoning so, because you^° have no bread? Do you^° not yet perceive, nor understand? Do you^° still have your^° heart hardened? ^8:18 Having eyes, do you^° not see? Having ears, do you^° not hear? And do you^° not remember? ^8:19 When I broke the five loaves ^*for the five thousand, how-many baskets full of broken pieces did you^° take up?

             They say to him, Twelve.

             ^8:20 Now when the seven to the four thousand, how-many baskets full of broken pieces did you^° take up?

             Now they said, Seven.

             ^8:21 And he was saying to them, How are you^° not understanding this?

 

             ^8:22 And he comes to Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man and they are pleading with him in-order-that he might touch him. ^8:23 And he grabbed the hand of the blind man, and led him outside the village, and he spat into his eyes, laid his hands upon him, and he was asking him if he sees anything.

             ^8:24 And after he looked up, he was saying, I see men, I see them like walking trees. ^8:25 Thereafter he laid his hands upon his eyes again, and he made^* him to look at him. And he was restored and looked at everyone distinctly.

             ^8:26 And he sent him forth to his house, saying, Neither enter into the village, nor say anything to anyone in the village.

 

             {Mar 8:27-30 & Mat 16:13-20 & Luk 9:18-21 Caesarea Philippi.}

             ^8:27 And Jesus went forth and his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the road he was asking his disciples, saying to them, Who do men say me to be {i.e., that I am}?

             ^8:28 Now they themselves answered, John the Immerser^* and others, Elijah, but others, One of the prophets.

             ^8:29 And he says to them, But who do you^° say me to be {i.e., that I am}?

             Now Peter answered, saying to him, You are the Christ. ^8:30 And he rebuked them in-order-that they should speak to no one concerning him.

 

             {Mar 8:31-9:1 & Mat 16:21-28 & Luk 9:22-27 Caesarea Philippi.}

             ^8:31 And he began to teach them, that it is essential for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected^* from the elders and the high-priests and the scribes, and be killed, and to rise^* up after three days. ^8:32 And he was speaking the word frankly. And Peter took him and began to rebuke him. ^8:33 But he turned again, and saw his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying, Proceed-away, behind me, adversary, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.

             ^8:34 And he called the crowd together-with his disciples to him, and said to them, Whoever wishes to follow after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross and follow me. ^8:35 For^* whoever wishes to save his life will be losing it, and whoever should lose his life because of me and because of the good-news, this one will be saving it. ^8:36 For^* what will it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world and his soul should be forfeited? ^8:37 Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul? ^8:38 For^* whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this, the adulteress and sinner generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him, whenever he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy messengers.