8 Around that time there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. Jesus called the disciples together and said to them, 2 “I feel compassion for the people because they have already stayed with me for three days and they have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them home without food, they will faint on the way, and some have come from far away.” 4 His disciples said, “Where could anyone find enough bread to feed them here in this isolated place?” 5 He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven.” 6 He directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the seven loaves of bread and giving thanks, he broke the bread and gave the pieces to his disciples to serve to the crowd. 7 They had a few small fish as well, so having blessed them, he ordered these to be served too. 8 They ate until they were full, and then collected seven large baskets of leftovers.  9 There were about 4,000 men there. After dismissing them, 10 Jesus immediately got in the boat with his disciples and went to the Dalmanutha region.
    11 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, wanting him to show them a miraculous sign from heaven, testing him.  12 Sighing deeply in his spirit,[272] Jesus asked, “Why does this evil society seek a sign? I am telling you the truth: No sign will be given to this evil society.”  13 So he left them behind, got into the boat, and went back across the lake.
    14 But the disciples had forgotten to bring bread with them. All they had in the boat was just one loaf. 15 “Watch out!” he warned them. “Be careful of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod.”  16 They began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.  17 Jesus was aware of this and said, “Why are you discussing about not having bread? Do you still not know or understand? Do you have closed minds?  18 You have eyes to see, have you not? And ears to hear? And do you not remember, 19 when I shared five loaves among 5,000, how many large baskets full of leftovers did you pick up?” They replied, “Twelve.” 20 “And the seven loaves for the 4,000 — how many baskets of leftovers did you take away?” They answered, “Seven.”  21 He asked them, “Do you not understand yet?”
    22 They went to Bethsaida where some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him. 23 Jesus took the blind man by the hand and took him outside the village. After spitting on the man’s eyes and laying his hands on them, Jesus asked him, “Do you see anything?” 24 The man looked up. “I see people, but they look like trees walking around, ” he said. 25 So Jesus laid his hands on the man’s eyes again, and the man looked carefully around. He was healed and began to see everything clearly. 26 Jesus sent the man home, and said to him, “Do not even go into the village.”
    27 Jesus and his disciples left to go to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say I am?” 28 They answered, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others one of the prophets.”  29 He then asked them, “But what about you? Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” 30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
    31 Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and religious teachers, and be killed, and three days later rise again.[273]  32 Jesus told them this very clearly. Peter took him aside and started to reprimand him. 33 Jesus turned around and, looking at his disciples, reprimanded Peter. “Go away from me, you Satan,” he said. “You are not setting your mind on the things of God, but human things.”
    34 Jesus called over the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.  35 Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and the Gospel[274] will save it. 36 What point is there for anyone to get everything in the whole world, and lose his life? 37 What would anyone give in exchange for his life? 38 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words among this unfaithful and sinful society,[275] the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”