14. For there were about five thousand men. And He said to His taught ones, “Make them sit down in groups of fifty.”
15. And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16. And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the taught ones to set before the crowd.
17. So they all ate and were satisfied, and twelve baskets of the broken pieces were picked up by them.
18. And it came to be, as He was alone praying, the taught ones were with Him, and He asked them, saying, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
19. And they answering, said, “Yoḥanan the Immerser, but others Ěliyahu, and others say that one of the old prophets has risen up.”
20. And He said to them, “And you, who do you say I am?” And Kĕpha answering, said, “The Messiah of Elohim.”
21. And strictly warning them, He commanded them to say this to no one,
22. saying, “The Son of Aḏam has to suffer much, and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised the third day.”
23. And He said to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake daily, and follow Me.
24. “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake shall save it.
25. “For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and is himself destroyed or lost?
26. “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Aḏam shall be ashamed when He comes in His esteem, and in His Father’s, and of the set-apart messengers.