13. But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.”They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”
14. For they were about five thousand men.He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
15. They did so, and made them all sit down.
16. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17. They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
18. As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”
19. They answered, “‘Yochanan the Immerser,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.”
20. He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”Peter answered, “The Messiah of God.”
21. But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,
22. saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”
23. He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
24. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
25. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
26. For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
27. But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”
28. About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, Yochanan, and Jacob, and went up onto the mountain to pray.