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 the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near his disciples, saith to them,
2 `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they do continue with me, and they have not what they may eat;
3 and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.`
4 And his disciples answered him, `Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?`
5 And he was questioning them, `How many loaves have ye?` and they said, `Seven.`
6 And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground, and having taken the seven loaves, having given thanks, he brake, and was giving to his disciples that they may set before [them]; and they did set before the multitude.
7 And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed, he said to set them also before [them];
8 and they did eat and were filled, and they took up that which was over of broken pieces -- seven baskets;
9 and those eating were about four thousand. And he let them away,
10 and immediately having entered into the boat with his disciples, he came to the parts of Dalmanutha,
11 and the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from the heaven, tempting him;
12 and having sighed deeply in his spirit, he saith, `Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.`
13 And having left them, having entered again into the boat, he went away to the other side;
14 and they forgot to take loaves, and except one loaf they had nothing with them in the boat,
15 and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,`
16 and they were reasoning with one another, saying -- `Because we have no loaves.`
17 And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?
18 Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?
19 When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?` they say to him, `Twelve.`
20 `And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?` and they said, `Seven.`
21 And he said to them, `How do ye not understand?`
22 And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring to him one blind, and call upon him that he may touch him,
23 and having taken the hand of the blind man, he led him forth without the village, and having spit on his eyes, having put [his] hands on him, he was questioning him if he doth behold anything:
24 and he, having looked up, said, `I behold men, as I see trees, walking.`
25 Afterwards again he put [his] hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,
26 and he sent him away to his house, saying, `Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell [it] to any in the village.`
27 And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, to the villages of Cesarea Philippi, and in the way he was questioning his disciples, saying to them, `Who do men say me to be?`
28 And they answered, `John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.`
29 And he saith to them, `And ye -- who do ye say me to be?` and Peter answering saith to him, `Thou art the Christ.`
30 And he strictly charged them that they may tell no one about it,
31 and began to teach them, that it behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise again;
32 and openly he was speaking the word. And Peter having taken him aside, began to rebuke him,
33 and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, `Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.`
34 And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, `Whoever doth will to come after me -- let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me;
35 for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news` sake, he shall save it;
36 for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
37 Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
38 for whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when he may come in the glory of his Father, with the holy messengers.`