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 having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto 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 whence can a man 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 people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, 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 saith, Why doth 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 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 saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? 19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. 20 And when the seven 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 understand?
22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought 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 upon 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 upon 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 Cæsarea 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, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. 29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art 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 spake 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 thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, 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 cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.