1 Naqueles dias, como fosse novamente numerosa a multidão, enão tivessem o que comer, Jesus convocou os discípulos e lhes disse:2 Tenho compaixão deste povo. Já há três dias perseveram comigo e não têm o que comer.3 Se os despedir em jejum para suas casas, desfalecerão no caminho; e alguns deles vieram de longe!4 Seus discípulos responderam-lhe: Como poderá alguém fartá-los de pão aqui no deserto?5 Mas ele perguntou-lhes: Quantos pães tendes? Sete, responderam.6 Mandou então que o povo se assentasse no chão. Tomando os sete pães, deu graças, partiu-os e entregou-os a seus discípulos, para que os distribuíssem e eles os distribuíram ao povo.7 Tinham também alguns peixinhos. Ele os abençoou e mandou também distribuí-los.8 Comeram e ficaram fartos, e dos pedaços que sobraram levantaram sete cestos.9 Ora, os que comeram eram cerca de quatro mil pessoas. Em seguida, Jesus os despediu.10 E embarcando depois com seus discípulos, foi para o território de Dalmanuta.11 Vieram os fariseus e puseram-se a disputar com ele e pediram-lhe um sinal do céu, para pô-lo à prova.12 Jesus, porém, suspirando no seu coração, disse: Por que pede esta geração um sinal? Em verdade vos digo: jamais lhe será dado um sinal.13 Deixou-os e seguiu de barca para a outra margem.14 Aconteceu que eles haviam esquecido de levar pães consigo. Na barca havia um único pão.15 Jesus advertiu-os: Abri os olhos e acautelai-vos do fermento dos fariseus e do fermento de Herodes!16 E eles comentavam entre si que era por não terem pão.17 Jesus percebeu-o e disse-lhes: Por que discutis por não terdes pão? Ainda não tendes refletido nem compreendido? Tendes, pois, o coração insensível?18 Tendo olhos, não vedes? E tendo ouvidos, não ouvis? Não vos lembrais mais?19 Ao partir eu os cinco pães entre os cinco mil, quantos cestos recolhestes cheios de pedaços? Responderam-lhe: Doze.20 E quando eu parti os sete pães entre os quatro mil homens, quantos cestos de pedaços levantastes? Sete, responderam-lhe.21 Jesus disse-lhes: Como é que ainda não entendeis?...22 Chegando eles a Betsaida, trouxeram-lhe um cego e suplicaram-lhe que o tocasse.23 Jesus tomou o cego pela mão e levou-o para fora da aldeia. Pôs-lhe saliva nos olhos e, impondo-lhe as mãos, perguntou-lhe: Vês alguma coisa?24 O cego levantou os olhos e respondeu: Vejo os homens como árvores que andam.25 Em seguida, Jesus lhe impôs as mãos nos olhos e ele começou a ver e ficou curado, de modo que via distintamente de longe.26 E mandou-o para casa, dizendo-lhe: Não entres nem mesmo na aldeia.27 Jesus saiu com os seus discípulos para as aldeias de Cesaréia de Filipe, e pelo caminho perguntou-lhes: Quem dizem os homens que eu sou?28 Responderam-lhe os discípulos: João Batista; outros, Elias; outros, um dos profetas.29 Então perguntou-lhes Jesus: E vós, quem dizeis que eu sou? Respondeu Pedro: Tu és o Cristo.30 E ordenou-lhes severamente que a ninguém dissessem nada a respeito dele.31 E começou a ensinar-lhes que era necessário que o Filho do homem padecesse muito, fosse rejeitado pelos anciãos, pelos sumos sacerdotes e pelos escribas, e fosse morto, mas ressuscitasse depois de três dias.32 E falava-lhes abertamente dessas coisas. Pedro, tomando-o à parte, começou a repreendê-lo.33 Mas, voltando-se ele, olhou para os seus discípulos e repreendeu a Pedro: Afasta-te de mim, Satanás, porque teus sentimentos não são os de Deus, mas os dos homens.34 Em seguida, convocando a multidão juntamente com os seus discípulos, disse-lhes: Se alguém me quer seguir, renuncie-se a si mesmo, tome a sua cruz e siga-me.35 Porque o que quiser salvar a sua vida, perdê-la-á; mas o que perder a sua vida por amor de mim e do Evangelho, salvá-la-á.36 Pois que aproveitará ao homem ganhar o mundo inteiro, se vier a perder a sua vida?37 Ou que dará o homem em troca da sua vida?38 Porque, se nesta geração adúltera e pecadora alguém 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 seus santos anjos.

1 In those days, as before, there was a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat; Jesus called his disciples [unto him] and said unto them,2 I have mercy 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 some of them came from afar.4 And his disciples answered him, From where can anyone satisfy these [men] with bread here in the wilderness?5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.6 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves and having given thanks, he broke [them] and gave to his disciples to set before [them]; and they set [them] before the multitude.7 And they also had a few small fishes; and he blessed them and commanded to set them also before [them].8 So they ate and were filled; and they took up of the broken [food] that was left seven baskets.9 And those that had eaten were about four thousand; and he dispatched them.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 argue with him, demanding of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.12 And crying out in his spirit, he said, Why does this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto 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 commanded them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and [of] the leaven of Herod.16 And they argued among themselves, saying, [It is] because we have no bread.17 And as Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why argue ye because ye have no bread? Do ye not consider nor understand? is your heart yet blind?18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?19 When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They said unto him, Twelve.20 And when the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not yet understand?22 And he came to Bethsaida, and they bring a blind man unto him and beseech him to touch him.23 So, taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town; and spitting into his eyes and putting his hands upon [them], he asked him if he saw anything.24 And looking, he said, I see men; I see that they walk as trees.25 After that, he put [his] hands again upon his eyes and caused him to see; and he was whole and saw everyone, far away and 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 and his disciples went out into the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?28 And they answered, John the Baptist; but some [say], Elijah; and others, One of the prophets.29 Then he said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answered and said unto him, Thou art the Christ!30 And he commanded them that they should tell no one of [this] regarding him.31 And he began to teach them that it was convenient that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and [of] the princes of the priests and of the scribes, and be killed and after three days rise again.32 And he spoke this word clearly. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him.33 And he, turning about and looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Get thyself from me, Satan, for thou knowest not the things that are of God, but the things that [are] of men.34 And calling the multitude [unto him] with his disciples, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake and follow me.35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, 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 Whosoever 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.: