Mark 8

1In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them,Cross-references: Matt 15:32 · Mark 6:34

2“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days and have nothing to eat.Cross-references: Ps 103:13 · Ps 145:8 · Ps 145:15 · Mic 7:19 · Matt 4:2 · Matt 6:32 · +14 more

3If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”Cross-references: Judg 8:4 · 1Sam 14:28 · 1Sam 30:10 · Isa 40:31

4His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”Cross-references: Num 11:21 · 2Ki 4:42 · 2Ki 7:2 · Ps 78:19 · Matt 15:33 · Mark 6:36 · +2 more

5He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.”Cross-references: Matt 14:15 · Matt 15:34 · Mark 6:38 · Luke 9:13

6He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:13 · Matt 14:18 · Matt 15:35 · Matt 26:26 · Mark 6:39 · Luke 9:14 · +9 more

7They also had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.Cross-references: Matt 14:19 · Luke 6:41 · Luke 24:41 · John 21:5 · John 21:8

8They ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:14 · 2Ki 4:2 · 2Ki 4:42 · Ps 107:8 · Ps 145:16 · Matt 16:10 · +7 more

9Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.

10Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples and came into the region of Dalmanutha.Cross-references: Matt 15:39

11The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven and testing him.Cross-references: Ex 17:2 · Ex 17:7 · Deut 6:16 · Mal 3:15 · Matt 12:38 · Matt 16:1 · +19 more

12He sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”Cross-references: Isa 53:3 · Matt 12:39 · Matt 16:4 · Mark 3:5 · Mark 6:6 · Mark 7:34 · +7 more

13He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.Cross-references: Ps 81:12 · Jer 23:33 · Hos 4:17 · Hos 9:12 · Zech 11:8 · Matt 7:6 · +6 more

14They forgot to take bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in the boat with them.Cross-references: Matt 16:5

15He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”Cross-references: Ex 12:18 · Lev 2:11 · Num 27:19 · 1Chr 28:9 · 1Chr 28:20 · Prov 19:27 · +11 more

16They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.”Cross-references: Matt 16:7 · Luke 9:46 · Luke 20:5

17Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet or understand? Is your heart still hardened?Cross-references: Isa 63:17 · Matt 15:17 · Matt 16:8 · Mark 2:8 · Mark 3:5 · Mark 6:52 · +8 more

18Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · Ps 69:23 · Ps 115:5 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 42:18 · Isa 44:18 · +8 more

19When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”Cross-references: Matt 14:17 · Mark 6:38 · Luke 9:12 · John 6:5

20“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.”Cross-references: Matt 15:34 · Mark 8:1

21He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”Cross-references: Ps 94:8 · Matt 16:11 · Mark 6:52 · Mark 8:12 · Mark 8:17 · Mark 9:19 · +3 more

22He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.Cross-references: Matt 8:3 · Matt 8:15 · Matt 9:29 · Matt 11:21 · Mark 2:3 · Mark 5:27 · +6 more

23He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.Cross-references: Isa 44:2 · Isa 51:18 · Jer 31:32 · Mark 5:23 · Mark 7:33 · John 9:6 · +3 more

24He looked up, and said, “I see men, but I see them like walking trees.”Cross-references: Judg 9:36 · Isa 29:18 · Isa 32:3 · 1Cor 13:9

25Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.Cross-references: Prov 4:18 · Matt 13:12 · Phil 1:6 · 1Pet 2:9 · 2Pet 3:18

26He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 9:30 · Matt 12:16 · Mark 5:43 · Mark 7:36 · Mark 8:23

27Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”Cross-references: Matt 16:13 · Luke 9:18

28They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others, one of the prophets.”Cross-references: Mal 4:5 · Matt 14:2 · Matt 16:14 · Mark 6:14 · Mark 9:11 · Luke 9:7 · +1 more

29He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”Cross-references: Matt 16:15 · Mark 4:11 · Luke 9:20 · John 1:41 · John 4:42 · John 6:69 · +6 more

30He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 16:20 · Mark 7:36 · Mark 8:26 · Mark 9:9 · Luke 9:21

31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:7 · 1Sam 10:19 · Ps 118:22 · Isa 53:3 · Hos 6:2 · Jonah 1:17 · +20 more

32He spoke to them openly. Peter took him and began to rebuke him.Cross-references: Matt 16:22 · Mark 4:38 · Luke 10:40 · John 13:6 · John 16:25 · John 16:29 · +1 more

33But he, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”Cross-references: Gen 3:4 · Lev 19:17 · 2Sam 19:22 · Job 2:10 · Ps 141:5 · Prov 9:8 · +17 more

34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.Cross-references: Num 14:24 · 1Ki 14:8 · Matt 5:29 · Matt 7:13 · Matt 10:38 · Matt 16:24 · +37 more

35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.Cross-references: Esth 4:11 · Jer 26:20 · Matt 5:10 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 10:39 · Matt 16:25 · +19 more

36For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?Cross-references: Job 2:4 · Job 22:2 · Ps 49:17 · Ps 73:18 · Mal 3:14 · Matt 4:8 · +9 more

37For what will a man give in exchange for his life?Cross-references: Ps 49:7 · 1Pet 1:18

38For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”Cross-references: Deut 33:2 · Dan 7:10 · Dan 7:13 · Zech 14:5 · Matt 8:20 · Matt 10:32 · +30 more