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Mark 8:20-31 English Standard Version (ESV)

20. “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”

21. And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

22. And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.

23. And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”

24. And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”

25. Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

26. And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

27. And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

28. And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”

29. And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”

30. And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.

31. And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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