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24  He l ­ ooked up and said, “I see peo­ple; they
look like t ­ rees walk­i ng around.”
25  Once more ­Jesus put his ­h ands on the
man’s eyes. Then his eyes were ­opened, his
s ight was re­s tored, and he saw ev­ery­t hing
clear­ly. 26  Jesus sent him home, say­i ng, “Don’t
even go into  a the vil­lage.”
Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah
27  Jesus and his dis­c i­ples went on to the vil­
lag­es ­a round Caes­a ­rea Phi­l ip­pi. On the way he
asked them, “Who do peo­ple say I am?”
28  They re­plied, “Some say John the Bap­t ist;
oth­ers say Eli­jah; and ­still oth­ers, one of the
proph­ets.”
29  “But what ­about you?” he ­a sked. “Who do
you say I am?”
Pe­ter an­swered, “You are the Mes­si­a h.”
30  Jesus ­w arned them not to tell any­o ne
about him.
Jesus Predicts His Death
31  He then be­gan to ­teach them that the Son
of Man must suf­fer many ­t hings and be re­
ject­ed by the el­ders, the ­chief ­priests and the
teach­ers of the law, and that he must be ­k illed
and af­ter ­t hree days rise ­again. 32  He ­spoke
plain­l y ­about this, and Pe­ter took him ­a side
and be­gan to re­buke him.
33  But when ­Jesus ­t urned and ­looked at his
dis­c i­ples, he re­buked Pe­ter. “Get be­h ind me,
Sa­t an!” he said. “You do not have in mind
the con­cerns of God, but mere­ly hu­man con­
cerns.”
The Way of the Cross
34  Then he ­called the ­crowd to him ­a long with
his dis­ci­ples and said: “Who­ev­er ­wants to be
my dis­ci­ple must deny them­selves and take up
t heir ­cross and fol­low me. 35  For who­ev­er ­wants
to save ­t heir life  b will lose it, but who­ev­er los­es
t heir life for me and for the gos­pel will save it.
36  What good is it for some­one to gain the ­whole
world, yet for­feit their soul? 37  Or what can any­
one give in ex­change for their soul? 38  If any­one
is ­ashamed of me and my ­words in this adul­ter­
ous and sin­f ul gen­er­a­t ion, the Son of Man will
be ­ashamed of them when he ­comes in his Fa­
ther’s glo­r y with the holy an­gels.”
And he said to them, “Tru­ly I tell you, some
who are stand­i ng here will not ­taste ­death
be­fore they see that the king­dom of God has
come with pow­er.”
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The Transfiguration
2  Af­ter six days ­Jesus took Pe­ter, ­James and
John with him and led them up a high moun­
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tain, ­where they were all ­a lone. ­T here he was
trans­f ig­u red be­fore them. 3  His ­c lothes be­
came daz­z ling ­w hite, whit­er than any­one in
the ­world ­could ­bleach them. 4  And ­t here ap­
peared be­fore them Eli­jah and Mo­s es, who
were talk­i ng with ­Jesus.
5  Pe­ter said to ­Jesus, “Rab­bi, it is good for us
to be here. Let us put up ­t hree shel­ters — ​one
for you, one for Mo­ses and one for Eli­jah.” 6  (He
did not know what to say, they were so fright­
ened.)
7  Then a ­cloud ap­peared and cov­ered them,
and a ­voice came from the ­cloud: “This is my
Son, whom I love. Lis­ten to him!”
8  Sud­den­l y, when they ­looked ­a round, they
no lon­ger saw any­one with them ex­cept J ­ esus.
9  As they were com­i ng down the moun­t ain,
Jesus gave them or­ders not to tell any­one what
they had seen un­t il the Son of Man had ris­en
from the dead. 10  They kept the mat­ter to them­
selves, dis­cuss­i ng what “ris­i ng from the dead”
meant.
11  And they ­a sked him, “Why do the teach­
ers of the law say that Eli­jah must come first?”
12  Jesus re­p lied, “To be sure, Eli­jah does
come ­f irst, and re­stores all ­t hings. Why then
is it writ­ten that the Son of Man must suf­fer
much and be re­ject­ed? 13  But I tell you, Eli­jah
has come, and they have done to him ev­ery­
thing they ­w ished, just as it is writ­ten ­about
him.”
Jesus Heals a Boy Possessed by an
Impure Spirit
14  When they came to the oth­er dis­c i­ples,
they saw a ­large ­c rowd ­a round them and the
teach­ers of the law ar­g u­i ng with them. 15  As
soon as all the peo­ple saw ­Jesus, they were
over­w helmed with won­der and ran to ­g reet
him.
16  “What are you ar­g u­i ng with them ­about?”
he asked.
17  A man in the ­c rowd an­s wered, “Teach­er,
I ­brought you my son, who is pos­sessed by a
spir­it that has ­robbed him of ­speech. 18  When­
ev­er it seiz­es him, it ­t hrows him to the ­g round.
He ­foams at the ­mouth, gnash­es his ­teeth and
be­comes rig­id. I ­asked your dis­ci­ples to ­d rive
out the spir­it, but they c ­ ould not.”
19  “You un­b e­l iev­i ng gen­er­a­t ion,” ­Jesus re­
plied, “how long ­shall I stay with you? How
long ­s hall I put up with you? ­Bring the boy
to me.”
20  So they ­b rought him. When the spir­i t
saw ­Jesus, it im­me­d i­ate­ly ­t hrew the boy into
a con­v ul­sion. He fell to the ­g round and ­rolled
a round, foam­i ng at the mouth.
Some manuscripts go and tell anyone in    b  35  The Greek word means either life or soul  ; also in verses 36 and 37.