009:013 "You yourselves," He said, "must give them food."
"We have nothing," they replied, "but five loaves and a couple
of fish, unless indeed we were to go and buy provisions
for all this host of people."
009:014 (For there were about 5,000 adult men.) But He said to His disciples,
"Make them sit down in parties of about fifty each."
009:015 They did so, making them all, without exception, sit down.
009:016 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking
up to Heaven He blessed them and broke them into portions
which He gave to the disciples to distribute to the people.
009:017 So they ate and were fully satisfied, all of them; and what they
had remaining over was gathered up, twelve baskets of fragments.
009:018 One day when He was praying by Himself the disciples were present;
and He asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"
009:019 "John the Baptist," they replied; "but others say Elijah;
and others that some one of the ancient Prophets has come
back to life."
009:020 "But you," He asked, "who do you say that I am?"
"God's Anointed One," replied Peter.
009:021 And Jesus strictly forbad them to tell this to any one;
009:022 and He said, "The Son of Man must suffer much cruelty, be rejected
by the Elders and High Priests and Scribes, and be put to death,
and on the third day be raised to life again."
009:023 And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me,
let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day,
and so be my follower.
009:024 For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever
loses his life for my sake shall save it.
009:025 Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world,
but to have lost or forfeited his own self.