使四千人吃饱

在那些日子里,又一次,有一大群人,他们没有什么东西吃。耶稣召来门徒们,对他们说: “我怜悯这群人,因为他们与我在一起已经三天了,也没有什么东西吃。 如果我让他们饿着肚子回家,他们会在路上晕倒,因为有些人从远处而来。”

他的门徒们回答:“在这旷野,从哪里能得食物让这些人吃饱呢?”

耶稣问他们:“你们有多少饼呢?”

他们回答说:“七个。” 耶稣就吩咐众人坐在地上,于是拿起这七个饼,祝谢以后,掰开,不断递给他的门徒们,让他们分发。门徒们就分给众人; 他们还有几条小鱼,耶稣祝福了,就吩咐把它们也分给众人。 他们吃了,并且吃饱了。然后,他们把剩下的碎块收拾起来,装满了[a]七个筐子。 当时约有四千人[b]。耶稣遣散了他们, 10 随即与他的门徒们一起上船,来到达玛努达[c]地区。

法利赛人与希律的酵

11 有些法利赛人出来,开始和耶稣辩论。他们试探耶稣,向他要求一个从天上来的神迹。 12 耶稣灵里深深地叹息,就说:“这世代为什么在寻求神迹呢?我确实地告诉你们:绝不会有神迹赐给这世代。” 13 于是他就离开他们,又上船往对岸去。

14 门徒们忘了带饼,船上除了一个饼,再没有别的了。 15 耶稣吩咐他们说:“你们要注意,要当心法利赛人的酵母和希律的酵母。”

16 门徒们因为没有饼,就彼此讨论。 17 耶稣知道了,就问他们:“你们为什么讨论没有饼的事呢?你们还不明白,还不领悟,还是硬着心吗? 18 你们有眼睛却看不见,有耳朵却听不见吗?[d]难道不记得吗? 19 当我掰开那五个饼给五千人的时候,你们收拾的碎块装满了几个篮子呢?”

门徒们回答说:“十二个。”

20 “那七个饼给四千人的时候,你们收拾的碎块装满了几个筐子呢?”

门徒们回答说:“七个。”

21 耶稣对他们说:“你们还不领悟吗?”

开盲人的眼睛

22 他们来到伯赛达,有人带来一个瞎眼的,恳求耶稣摸他。 23 耶稣牵着瞎眼之人的手,领他到村子外面,吐唾沫在他的眼睛上,按手在他身上,问他:“你是否看见什么?”

24 他抬头一看,说:“我看见一些人!看起来好像树在走路!”

25 然后耶稣又按手在他的眼睛上,他就看得清清楚楚了。他痊愈了,就清楚地看见了一切。 26 耶稣叫他回家,并说:“不要进这村子[e]。”

彼得认耶稣为基督

27 耶稣和他的门徒们往凯撒里亚菲利彼的那些村庄去。在路上,耶稣问他的门徒们,说:“人们说我是谁?”

28 他们回答他,说:“是施洗者[f]约翰,有的说是以利亚,也有的说是先知中的一位。”

29 耶稣又问他们:“那么你们呢?你们说我是谁?”

彼得回答说:“你是基督!”

30 耶稣就告诫他们不要把有关他的事告诉任何人。

预言受难与复活

31 耶稣开始教导他们说:“人子必须受很多苦害,被长老们、祭司长们和经文士们弃绝,并且被杀,然后在第三天要复活。” 32 耶稣公开地讲这些事,彼得把耶稣拉到一边,开始劝阻他。

33 但耶稣转过身,看了看他的门徒们,就斥责彼得,说:撒旦,退到我后面去!因为你不是思想神的事,而是思想人的事。”

背起你的十字架

34 于是,耶稣把众人和他的门徒们一起召来,对他们说:“如果有人想要跟从我,他就当舍弃自己,背起自己的十字架,然后跟从我。 35 因为凡想要保全[g]自己生命的,将失去生命;凡为我和福音的缘故失去自己生命的,将保全[h]生命。 36 一个人就是赚得了全世界,却赔上了自己的生命[i],到底有什么益处呢? 37 人到底能拿什么来换回自己的生命[j]呢? 38 在这淫乱、罪恶的世代,一个人如果以我和我的话为耻,当人子在他父的荣耀中,与圣天使们一起来临的时候,也要以这个人为耻。”

Footnotes

  1. 马可福音 8:8 装满了——辅助词语。
  2. 马可福音 8:9 约有四千人——有古抄本作“吃的人约有四千”。
  3. 马可福音 8:10 达玛努达——有古抄本作“茉加丹”或“茉大拉”。
  4. 马可福音 8:18 《耶利米书》5:21;《以西结书》12:2。
  5. 马可福音 8:26 有古抄本附“也不要告诉村子里的任何人”。
  6. 马可福音 8:28 施洗——或译作“施浸”。
  7. 马可福音 8:35 保全——原文直译“救”。
  8. 马可福音 8:35 保全——原文直译“救”。
  9. 马可福音 8:36 生命——或译作“灵魂”。
  10. 马可福音 8:37 生命——或译作“灵魂”。

Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand(A)(B)(C)

During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people;(D) they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.”

His disciples answered, “But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?”

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked.

“Seven,” they replied.

He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so. They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them.(E) The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.(F) About four thousand were present. After he had sent them away, 10 he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

11 The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven.(G) 12 He sighed deeply(H) and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.” 13 Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod

14 The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. 15 “Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast(I) of the Pharisees(J) and that of Herod.”(K)

16 They discussed this with one another and said, “It is because we have no bread.”

17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?(L) 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”

“Twelve,”(M) they replied.

20 “And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”

They answered, “Seven.”(N)

21 He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”(O)

Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida

22 They came to Bethsaida,(P) and some people brought a blind man(Q) and begged Jesus to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit(R) on the man’s eyes and put his hands on(S) him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?”

24 He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”

25 Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 Jesus sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into[a] the village.”

Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah(T)

27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”

28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist;(U) others say Elijah;(V) and still others, one of the prophets.”

29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”(W)

30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.(X)

Jesus Predicts His Death(Y)

31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man(Z) must suffer many things(AA) and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law,(AB) and that he must be killed(AC) and after three days(AD) rise again.(AE) 32 He spoke plainly(AF) about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!”(AG) he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

The Way of the Cross

34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.(AH) 35 For whoever wants to save their life[b] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.(AI) 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man(AJ) will be ashamed of them(AK) when he comes(AL) in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Footnotes

  1. Mark 8:26 Some manuscripts go and tell anyone in
  2. Mark 8:35 The Greek word means either life or soul; also in verses 36 and 37.

Feeding the Four Thousand(A)

In those days, (B)the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, “I have (C)compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.”

Then His disciples answered Him, “How can one satisfy these people with bread here in the wilderness?”

(D)He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?”

And they said, “Seven.”

So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude. They also had a few small fish; and (E)having blessed them, He said to set them also before them. So they ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets of leftover fragments. Now those who had eaten were about four thousand. And He sent them away, 10 (F)immediately got into the boat with His disciples, and came to the region of Dalmanutha.

The Pharisees Seek a Sign(G)

11 (H)Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him. 12 But He (I)sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, (J)no sign shall be given to this generation.”

Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod(K)

13 And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side. 14 (L)Now [a]the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat. 15 (M)Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the [b]leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have no bread.”

17 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? (N)Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart [c]still hardened? 18 Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? 19 (O)When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?”

They said to Him, “Twelve.”

20 “Also, (P)when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?”

And they said, “Seven.”

21 So He said to them, “How is it (Q)you do not understand?”

A Blind Man Healed at Bethsaida

22 Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a (R)blind man to Him, and begged Him to (S)touch him. 23 So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when (T)He had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.

24 And he looked up and said, “I see men like trees, walking.”

25 Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly. 26 Then He sent him away to his house, saying, [d]“Neither go into the town, (U)nor tell anyone in the town.”

Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ(V)

27 (W)Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say that I am?”

28 So they answered, (X)“John the Baptist; but some say, (Y)Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”

29 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

Peter answered and said to Him, (Z)“You are the Christ.”

30 (AA)Then He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him.

Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection(AB)

31 And (AC)He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be (AD)rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be (AE)killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. 33 But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He (AF)rebuked Peter, saying, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not [e]mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

Take Up the Cross and Follow Him(AG)

34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, (AH)“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For (AI)whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 (AJ)For whoever (AK)is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

Footnotes

  1. Mark 8:14 NU, M they
  2. Mark 8:15 yeast
  3. Mark 8:17 NU omits still
  4. Mark 8:26 NU “Do not even go into the town.”
  5. Mark 8:33 setting your mind on