1 Naqueles dias, quando outra vez se reuniu grande multidão, e não tendo eles o que comer, chamou Jesus os discípulos e lhes disse: 2 Tenho compaixão desta gente, porque há três dias que permanecem comigo e não têm o que comer. 3 Se eu os despedir para suas casas, em jejum, desfalecerão pelo caminho; e alguns deles vieram de longe. 4 Mas os seus discípulos lhe responderam: Donde poderá alguém fartá-los de pão neste deserto? 5 E Jesus lhes perguntou: Quantos pães tendes? Responderam eles: Sete. 6 Ordenou ao povo que se assentasse no chão. E, tomando os sete pães, partiu-os, após ter dado graças, e os deu a seus discípulos, para que estes os distribuíssem, repartindo entre o povo. 7 Tinham também alguns peixinhos; e, abençoando-os, mandou que estes igualmente fossem distribuídos. 8 Comeram e se fartaram; e dos pedaços restantes recolheram sete cestos. 9 Eram cerca de quatro mil homens. Então, Jesus os despediu. 10 Logo a seguir, tendo embarcado juntamente com seus discípulos, partiu para as regiões de Dalmanuta.

11 E, saindo os fariseus, puseram-se a discutir com ele; e, tentando-o, pediram-lhe um sinal do céu. 12 Jesus, porém, arrancou do íntimo do seu espírito um gemido e disse: Por que pede esta geração um sinal? Em verdade vos digo que a esta geração não se lhe dará sinal algum. 13 E, deixando-os, tornou a embarcar e foi para o outro lado.

14 Ora, aconteceu que eles se esqueceram de levar pães e, no barco, não tinham consigo senão um só. 15 Preveniu-os Jesus, dizendo: Vede, guardai-vos do fermento dos fariseus e do fermento de Herodes. 16 E eles discorriam entre si: É que não temos pão. 17 Jesus, percebendo-o, lhes perguntou: Por que discorreis sobre o não terdes pão? Ainda não considerastes, nem compreendestes? Tendes o coração endurecido? 18 Tendo olhos, não vedes? E, tendo ouvidos, não ouvis? Não vos lembrais 19 de quando parti os cinco pães para os cinco mil, quantos cestos cheios de pedaços recolhestes? Responderam eles: Doze! 20 E de quando parti os sete pães para os quatro mil, quantos cestos cheios de pedaços recolhestes? Responderam: Sete! 21 Ao que lhes disse Jesus: Não compreendeis ainda?

22 Então, chegaram a Betsaida; e lhe trouxeram um cego, rogando-lhe que o tocasse. 23 Jesus, tomando o cego pela mão, levou-o para fora da aldeia e, aplicando-lhe saliva aos olhos e impondo-lhe as mãos, perguntou-lhe: Vês alguma coisa? 24 Este, recobrando a vista, respondeu: Vejo os homens, porque como árvores os vejo, andando. 25 Então, novamente lhe pôs as mãos nos olhos, e ele, passando a ver claramente, ficou restabelecido; e tudo distinguia de modo perfeito. 26 E mandou-o Jesus embora para casa, recomendando-lhe: Não entres na aldeia.

27 Então, Jesus e os seus discípulos partiram para as aldeias de Cesareia de Filipe; e, no caminho, perguntou-lhes: Quem dizem os homens que sou eu? 28 E responderam: João Batista; outros: Elias; mas outros: Algum dos profetas. 29 Então, lhes perguntou: Mas vós, quem dizeis que eu sou? Respondendo, Pedro lhe disse: Tu és o Cristo. 30 Advertiu-os Jesus de que a ninguém dissessem tal coisa a seu respeito.

31 Então, começou ele a ensinar-lhes que era necessário que o Filho do Homem sofresse muitas coisas, fosse rejeitado pelos anciãos, pelos principais sacerdotes e pelos escribas, fosse morto e que, depois de três dias, ressuscitasse. 32 E isto ele expunha claramente. Mas Pedro, chamando-o à parte, começou a reprová-lo. 33 Jesus, porém, voltou-se e, fitando os seus discípulos, repreendeu a Pedro e disse: Arreda, Satanás! Porque não cogitas das coisas de Deus, e sim das dos homens.

34 Então, convocando a multidão e juntamente os seus discípulos, disse-lhes: Se alguém quer vir após mim, a si mesmo se negue, tome a sua cruz e siga-me. 35 Quem quiser, pois, salvar a sua vida perdê-la-á; e quem perder a vida por causa de mim e do evangelho salvá-la-á. 36 Que aproveita ao homem ganhar o mundo inteiro e perder a sua alma? 37 Que daria um homem em troca de sua alma? 38 Porque qualquer que, nesta geração adúltera e pecadora, se envergonhar de mim e das minhas palavras, também o Filho do Homem se envergonhará dele, quando vier na glória de seu Pai com os santos anjos.

1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him, and said to them,

2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

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

5 And he asked them, How many loaves have you? And they said, Seven.

6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

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

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

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

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

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

12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, Why does this generation seek after a sign? truly I say to you, There shall no sign be given to this generation.

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

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

15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

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

17 And when Jesus knew it, he said to them, Why reason you, because you have no bread? perceive you not yet, neither understand? have you your heart yet hardened?

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

19 When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him, Twelve.

20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? And they said, Seven.

21 And he said to them, How is it that you do not understand?

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

23 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 ought.

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

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

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

27 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?

28 And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.

29 And he said to them, But whom say you that I am? And Peter answers and said to him, You are the Christ.

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

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

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

33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get you behind me, Satan: for you mind not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

34 And when he had called the people to him with his disciples also, he said to them, Whoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

35 For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel', the same shall save it.

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

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

38 Whoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.