1 In diebus illis iterum cum turba multa esset, nec haberent quod manducarent, convocatis discipulis, ait illis: 2 Misereor super turbam: quia ecce jam triduo sustinent me, nec habent quod manducent: 3 et si dimisero eos jejunos in domum suam, deficient in via: quidam enim ex eis de longe venerunt. 4 Et responderunt ei discipuli sui: Unde illos quis poterit saturare panibus in solitudine? 5 Et interrogavit eos: Quot panes habetis? Qui dixerunt: Septem. 6 Et præcepit turbæ discumbere super terram. Et accipiens septem panes, gratias agens fregit, et dabat discipulis suis ut apponerent, et apposuerunt turbæ. 7 Et habebant pisciculos paucos: et ipsos benedixit, et jussit apponi. 8 Et manducaverunt, et saturati sunt, et sustulerunt quod superaverat de fragmentis, septem sportas. 9 Erant autem qui manducaverunt, quasi quatuor millia: et dimisit eos. 10 Et statim ascendens navim cum discipulis suis, venit in partes Dalmanutha. 11 Et exierunt pharisæi, et cœperunt conquirere cum eo, quærentes ab illo signum de cælo, tentantes eum. 12 Et ingemiscens spiritu, ait: Quid generatio ista signum quærit? Amen dico vobis, si dabitur generationi isti signum. 13 Et dimittens eos, ascendit iterum navim et abiit trans fretum. 14 Et obliti sunt panes sumere: et nisi unum panem non habebant secum in navi. 15 Et præcipiebat eis, dicens: Videte, et cavete a fermento pharisæorum, et fermento Herodis. 16 Et cogitabant ad alterutrum, dicentes: quia panes non habemus. 17 Quo cognito, ait illis Jesus: Quid cogitatis, quia panes non habetis? nondum cognoscetis nec intelligitis? adhuc cæcatum habetis cor vestrum? 18 oculos habentes non videtis? et aures habentes non auditis? nec recordamini, 19 quando quinque panes fregi in quinque millia: quot cophinos fragmentorum plenos sustulistis? Dicunt ei: Duodecim. 20 Quando et septem panes in quatuor millia: quot sportas fragmentorum tulistis? Et dicunt ei: Septem. 21 Et dicebat eis: Quomodo nondum intelligitis? 22 Et veniunt Bethsaidam, et adducunt ei cæcum, et rogabant eum ut illum tangeret. 23 Et apprehensa manu cæci, eduxit eum extra vicum: et exspuens in oculos ejus impositis manibus suis, interrogavit eum si quid videret. 24 Et aspiciens, ait: Video homines velut arbores ambulantes. 25 Deinde iterum imposuit manus super oculos ejus: et cœpit videre: et restitutus est ita ut clare videret omnia. 26 Et misit illum in domum suam, dicens: Vade in domum tuam: et si in vicum introieris, nemini dixeris. 27 Et egressus est Jesus, et discipuli ejus in castella Cæsareæ Philippi: et in via interrogabat discipulos suos, dicens eis: Quem me dicunt esse homines? 28 Qui responderunt illi, dicentes: Joannem Baptistam, alii Eliam, alii vero quasi unum de prophetis. 29 Tunc dicit illis: Vos vero quem me esse dicitis? Respondens Petrus, ait ei: Tu es Christus. 30 Et comminatus est eis, ne cui dicerent de illo. 31 Et cœpit docere eos quoniam oportet Filium hominis pati multa, et reprobari a senioribus, et a summis sacerdotibus et scribis, et occidi: et post tres dies resurgere. 32 Et palam verbum loquebatur. Et apprehendens eum Petrus, cœpit increpare eum. 33 Qui conversus, et videns discipulos suos, comminatus est Petro, dicens: Vade retro me Satana, quoniam non sapis quæ Dei sunt, sed quæ sunt hominum. 34 Et convocata turba cum discipulis suis, dixit eis: Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsum: et tollat crucem suam, et sequatur me. 35 Qui enim voluerit animam suam salvam facere, perdet eam: qui autem perdiderit animam suam propter me, et Evangelium, salvam faciet eam. 36 Quid enim proderit homini, si lucretur mundum totum et detrimentum animæ suæ faciat? 37 Aut quid dabit homo commutationis pro anima sua? 38 Qui enim me confusus fuerit, et verba mea in generatione ista adultera et peccatrice, et Filius hominis confundetur eum, cum venerit in gloria Patris sui cum angelis sanctis. 39 Et dicebat illis: Amen dico vobis, quia sunt quidam de hic stantibus, qui non gustabunt mortem donec videant regnum Dei veniens in virtute.
Mark 8 Clementine Vulgate
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Bethsaida
Bethsaida lay near the Jordan's inflow to the Sea of Galilee. Its precise site is debated (et-Tell and el-Araj are candidates; approximate location). Jesus rebuked it for unbelief.
Cited in the guide: Mark 8:22; John 1:44; Luke 9:10
Caesarea Philippi
Caesarea Philippi (Banias) sat at the northern edge of the land by a spring of the Jordan and a shrine to Pan. Here Peter made his great confession of Jesus as Messiah.
Cited in the guide: Matthew 16:13; Mark 8:27
Cross references (37)
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- 1 Matthew 15:32–39; Mark 6:34–44
- 2 Matthew 9:36; Micah 7:19; Psalm 103:13; Psalm 145:15; Hebrews 4:15
- 3 Isaiah 40:31; Judges 8:4–6; 1 Samuel 14:28–31; 1 Samuel 30:10–12
- 4 Mark 6:52; Matthew 15:33; Psalm 78:19–20; Mark 6:36–37; Numbers 11:21–23
- 5 Matthew 14:15–17; Matthew 15:34; Luke 9:13; Mark 6:38
- 6 Colossians 3:17; John 6:10–11; Matthew 14:18–19; Matthew 15:35–36; 1 Corinthians 10:30–31
- 7 Matthew 14:19; John 21:5; John 21:8–9; Luke 24:41–42; Luke 6:41
- 8 Matthew 16:10; Psalm 145:16; Mark 8:19–20; 2 Kings 4:42–44; Psalm 107:8–9
- 10 Matthew 15:39
- 11 Matthew 12:38; John 4:48; 1 Corinthians 10:9; Malachi 3:15; Luke 12:54–57
- 12 Matthew 12:39–40; Mark 7:34; John 12:37–43; Matthew 16:4; Luke 11:29–30
- 13 Acts 18:6; Hosea 9:12; Matthew 7:6; Acts 13:45–46; Psalm 81:12
- 14 Matthew 16:5
- 15 1 Corinthians 5:6–8; Matthew 16:6; Matthew 16:11–12; Mark 12:13; Luke 12:1–2
- 16 Luke 20:5; Luke 9:46; Matthew 16:7–8
- 17 Mark 6:52; Hebrews 5:11–12; Mark 2:8; Isaiah 63:17; Mark 3:5
- 18 Acts 28:26–27; Matthew 13:14–15; Jeremiah 5:21; Mark 4:12; Ezekiel 12:2
- 19 Matthew 14:17–21; Luke 9:12–17; Mark 6:38–44; John 6:5–13
- 20 Matthew 15:34–38; Mark 8:1–9
- 21 Psalm 94:8; Mark 6:52; John 14:9; Mark 8:17; 1 Corinthians 15:34
- 22 Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13; Mark 6:45; Mark 2:3; John 1:44
- 23 Mark 7:33; John 9:6–7; Acts 9:8; Mark 5:23; Isaiah 51:18
- 24 Isaiah 29:18; 1 Corinthians 13:9–12; Isaiah 32:3; Judges 9:36
- 25 Proverbs 4:18; Philippians 1:6; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Peter 3:18; Matthew 13:12
- 26 Matthew 8:4; Matthew 12:16; Matthew 9:30; Mark 8:23; Mark 7:36
- 27 Luke 9:18–20; Matthew 16:13–20
- 28 John 1:21; Mark 9:11–13; Matthew 14:2; Malachi 4:5; Luke 9:7–9
- 29 1 John 4:15; Matthew 16:15–16; 1 John 5:1; John 11:27; Luke 9:20
- 30 Matthew 16:20; Luke 9:21; Mark 9:9; Mark 7:36; Mark 8:26
- 31 Mark 10:33–34; John 2:19; Luke 24:26; Hosea 6:2; 1 Samuel 10:19
- 32 Matthew 16:22; John 16:25; John 16:29; John 18:20; Mark 4:38
- 33 Matthew 4:10; Philippians 3:19; 1 John 2:15; James 3:15–18; Mark 3:34
- 34 Matthew 10:38; Luke 14:26–27; John 10:27; Galatians 5:24; Galatians 2:20
- 35 2 Timothy 2:11–13; 1 Corinthians 9:23; Luke 17:33; Matthew 16:25; 2 Timothy 1:8
- 36 Matthew 16:26; Psalm 49:17; Luke 9:25; James 1:9–11; Philippians 3:7–9
- 37 Psalm 49:7–8; 1 Peter 1:18–19
- 38 Luke 12:8–9; Romans 1:16; 1 John 2:23; James 4:4; Luke 9:26
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In expounding to you the Holy Scriptures, I as it were break bread for you. Do ye in hunger receive it, and break forth with a fulness of phrase from the heart; and ye who are rich in your banquet, be not meagre in good works and deeds. What I deal out to you is not mine own.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
… for the remission of sins be preached in His name among all nations." Now this is He who was born of Mary; for He says: "The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected, and crucified, and on the third day rise again." The Gospel, therefore, knew no other son of man but Him who was of Mary, …
Hard and grievous does that appear which the Lord hath enjoined, that "whosoever will come after Him, must deny himself." But what He enjoineth is not hard or grievous, who aideth us that what He enjoineth may be done.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
But Mark saith, that when they were come unto Him, and were questioning with Him, "He sighed deeply in His spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign?" And yet surely their inquiry was deserving of anger and great displeasure; yet nevertheless the benevolent and provident One is not angry, but pities and bewails them as incurably …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
We ask them to listen to the Lord Himself, distinctly setting forth the equal dignity of His glory with the Father, in His words, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father;" and again, "When the Son cometh in the glory of his Father;" that they "should honour the Son even as they honour the Father;" and, "We beheld …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)