1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came,
and testing him, asked him to show them
a sign from heaven.
2 But he answered them, “When it is
evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather,
for the sky is red.’
3 In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather
today, for the sky is red and threatening.’
Hypocrites! You know how to discern the
appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern
the signs of the times!
4 An evil and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign
given to it, except the sign of the prophet
Jonah.”
He left them and departed.
5 The disciples came to the other side and
had forgotten to take bread.
6 Jesus said to them, “Take heed and
beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and
Sadducees.”
7 They reasoned among themselves, saying,
“We brought no bread.”
8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do
you reason among yourselves, you of little
faith, because you have brought no
bread?
9 Don’t you yet perceive or remember
the five loaves for the five thousand, and
how many baskets you took up,
10 or the seven loaves for the four thousand,
and how many baskets you took up?
11 How is it that you don’t perceive that I
didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But
beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and
Sadducees.”
12 Then they understood that he didn’t
tell them to beware of the yeast of bread,
but of the teaching of the Pharisees and
Sadducees.
13 Now when Jesus came into the parts
of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of
Man, am?”
14 They said, “Some say John the Baptizer,
some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or
one of the prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But who do you say
that I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you,
Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has
not revealed this to you, but my Father
who is in heaven.
18 I also tell you that you are Peter,† and
on this rock ‡ I will build my assembly, and
the gates of Hades§ will not prevail against
it.
19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom
of Heaven, and whatever you bind on
earth will have been bound in heaven; and
30 Great multitudes came to him, having
with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed,
and many others, and they put them down
at his feet. He healed them,
31 so that the multitude wondered when
they saw the mute speaking, the injured
healed, the lame walking, and the blind
seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Jesus summoned his disciples and
said, “I have compassion on the multitude,
because they have continued with me now
three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t
want to send them away fasting, or they
might faint on the way.”
33 The disciples said to him, “Where
could we get so many loaves in a deserted
place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”
34 Jesus said to them, “How many loaves
do you have?”
They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
35 He commanded the multitude to sit
down on the ground;
36 and he took the seven loaves and the
fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and
gave to the disciples, and the disciples to
the multitudes.
37 They all ate and were filled. They took
up seven baskets full of the broken pieces
that were left over.
38 Those who ate were four thousand
men, in addition to women and children.
39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got
into the boat, and came into the borders of
Magdala.
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