Marc 8
Louis Segond
8 En ces jours-là, une foule nombreuse s'étant de nouveau réunie et n'ayant pas de quoi manger, Jésus appela les disciples, et leur dit:
2 Je suis ému de compassion pour cette foule; car voilà trois jours qu'ils sont près de moi, et ils n'ont rien à manger.
3 Si je les renvoie chez eux à jeun, les forces leur manqueront en chemin; car quelques-uns d'entre eux sont venus de loin.
4 Ses disciples lui répondirent: Comment pourrait-on les rassasier de pains, ici, dans un lieu désert?
5 Jésus leur demanda: Combien avez-vous de pains? Sept, répondirent-ils.
6 Alors il fit asseoir la foule par terre, prit les sept pains, et, après avoir rendu grâces, il les rompit, et les donna à ses disciples pour les distribuer; et ils les distribuèrent à la foule.
7 Ils avaient encore quelques petits poissons, et Jésus, ayant rendu grâces, les fit aussi distribuer.
8 Ils mangèrent et furent rassasiés, et l'on emporta sept corbeilles pleines des morceaux qui restaient.
9 Ils étaient environ quatre mille. Ensuite Jésus les renvoya.
10 Aussitôt il monta dans la barque avec ses disciples, et se rendit dans la contrée de Dalmanutha.
11 Les pharisiens survinrent, se mirent à discuter avec Jésus, et, pour l'éprouver, lui demandèrent un signe venant du ciel.
12 Jésus, soupirant profondément en son esprit, dit: Pourquoi cette génération demande-t-elle un signe? Je vous le dis en vérité, il ne sera point donné de signe à cette génération.
13 Puis il les quitta, et remonta dans la barque, pour passer sur l'autre bord.
14 Les disciples avaient oublié de prendre des pains; ils n'en avaient qu'un seul avec eux dans la barque.
15 Jésus leur fit cette recommandation: Gardez-vous avec soin du levain des pharisiens et du levain d'Hérode.
16 Les disciples raisonnaient entre eux, et disaient: C'est parce que nous n'avons pas de pains.
17 Jésus, l'ayant connu, leur dit: Pourquoi raisonnez-vous sur ce que vous n'avez pas de pains? Etes-vous encore sans intelligence, et ne comprenez-vous pas?
18 Avez-vous le coeur endurci? Ayant des yeux, ne voyez-vous pas? Ayant des oreilles, n'entendez-vous pas? Et n'avez-vous point de mémoire?
19 Quand j'ai rompu les cinq pains pour les cinq mille hommes, combien de paniers pleins de morceaux avez-vous emportés? Douze, lui répondirent-ils.
20 Et quand j'ai rompu les sept pains pour les quatre mille hommes, combien de corbeilles pleines de morceaux avez-vous emportées? Sept, répondirent-ils.
21 Et il leur dit: Ne comprenez-vous pas encore?
22 Ils se rendirent à Bethsaïda; et on amena vers Jésus un aveugle, qu'on le pria de toucher.
23 Il prit l'aveugle par la main, et le conduisit hors du village; puis il lui mit de la salive sur les yeux, lui imposa les mains, et lui demanda s'il voyait quelque chose.
24 Il regarda, et dit: J'aperçois les hommes, mais j'en vois comme des arbres, et qui marchent.
25 Jésus lui mit de nouveau les mains sur les yeux; et, quand l'aveugle regarda fixement, il fut guéri, et vit tout distinctement.
26 Alors Jésus le renvoya dans sa maison, en disant: N'entre pas au village.
27 Jésus s'en alla, avec ses disciples, dans les villages de Césarée de Philippe, et il leur posa en chemin cette question: Qui dit-on que je suis?
28 Ils répondirent: Jean Baptiste; les autres, Élie, les autres, l'un des prophètes.
29 Et vous, leur demanda-t-il, qui dites-vous que je suis? Pierre lui répondit: Tu es le Christ.
30 Jésus leur recommanda sévèrement de ne dire cela de lui à personne.
31 Alors il commença à leur apprendre qu'il fallait que le Fils de l'homme souffrît beaucoup, qu'il fût rejeté par les anciens, par les principaux sacrificateurs et par les scribes, qu'il fût mis à mort, et qu'il ressuscitât trois jours après.
32 Il leur disait ces choses ouvertement. Et Pierre, l'ayant pris à part, se mit à le reprendre.
33 Mais Jésus, se retournant et regardant ses disciples, réprimanda Pierre, et dit: Arrière de moi, Satan! car tu ne conçois pas les choses de Dieu, tu n'as que des pensées humaines.
34 Puis, ayant appelé la foule avec ses disciples, il leur dit: Si quelqu'un veut venir après moi, qu'il renonce à lui-même, qu'il se charge de sa croix, et qu'il me suive.
35 Car celui qui voudra sauver sa vie la perdra, mais celui qui perdra sa vie à cause de moi et de la bonne nouvelle la sauvera.
36 Et que sert-il à un homme de gagner tout le monde, s'il perd son âme?
37 Que donnerait un homme en échange de son âme?
38 Car quiconque aura honte de moi et de mes paroles au milieu de cette génération adultère et pécheresse, le Fils de l'homme aura aussi honte de lui, quand il viendra dans la gloire de son Père, avec les saints anges.
Mark 8
International Standard Version
Jesus Feeds More than Four Thousand People(A)
8 At that time, after a large crowd again had gathered together with nothing to eat, Jesus[a] called his disciples and told them, 2 “I have compassion for the crowd, because they’ve already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them away to their homes hungry, they’ll faint on the road. Some of them have come a long distance.”
4 His disciples answered him, “Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?”
5 He asked them, “How many loaves of bread do you have?”
“Seven,” they said.
6 So he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to distribute. So they served them to the crowd. 7 They also had a few small fish. He blessed them and said that the fish[b] should also be distributed. 8 The people[c] ate and were filled. Then the disciples[d] picked up the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full. 9 Now about 4,000 men were there. Then he sent them on their way. 10 Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.[e]
Interpreting the Time(B)
11 The Pharisees arrived and began arguing with Jesus.[f] They tested him by demanding from him a sign from heaven. 12 He sighed deeply in his spirit and remarked, “Why do those living today[g] demand a sign? I tell all of you[h] with certainty, no sign will be given to this generation.” 13 Leaving them, he got into a boat again and crossed to the other side.
The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees(C)
14 Now the disciples[i] had forgotten to take any bread along, but they had one loaf with them in the boat. 15 Jesus[j] had been warning them, “Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!”[k]
16 So they were discussing with one another the fact that they didn’t have any bread. 17 Knowing this, Jesus[l] asked them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you don’t have any bread? Don’t you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes, but fail to see? Do you have ears, but fail to hear?[m] Don’t you remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets did you fill with leftover pieces?”
They told him, “Twelve.”
20 “When I broke[n] the seven loaves[o] for the 4,000, how many large baskets did you fill with the leftover pieces?”
They told him, “Seven.”
21 Then he asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”
Jesus Heals a Blind Man in Bethsaida
22 As they came to Bethsaida, some people[p] brought a blind man to Jesus[q] and begged him to touch him.[r] 23 Jesus[s] took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. He spit into his eyes, placed his hands on him, and asked him, “Do you see anything?”
24 The man[t] looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees walking around.” 25 Then Jesus[u] placed his hands on the man’s[v] eyes again, and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw everything perfectly, even from a distance.
26 Then Jesus[w] sent him home, saying, “Don’t go into the village or tell anyone in the village.”[x]
Peter Declares His Faith in Jesus(D)
27 Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, “Who do people say I am?”
28 They answered him, “Some say[y] John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets.”
29 Then he began to ask them, “But who do you say I am?”
Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah!”[z] 30 Jesus[aa] sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection(E)
31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but after three days he would rise again. 32 He was speaking about this matter quite openly.
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus[ab] rebuked Peter, saying, “Get behind me, Satan, because you’re not thinking God’s thoughts, but human thoughts!”
34 Then Jesus[ac] called the crowd to himself along with his disciples and told them, “If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously, 35 because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it. 36 What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? 37 Indeed, what can a person give in exchange for his life? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father’s glory.”
Footnotes
- Mark 8:1 Lit. he
- Mark 8:7 Lit. these
- Mark 8:8 Lit. They
- Mark 8:8 Lit. they
- Mark 8:10 Other mss. read Mageda; still other mss. read Magdala
- Mark 8:11 Lit. him
- Mark 8:12 Lit. Why does this generation
- Mark 8:12 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.
- Mark 8:14 Lit. they
- Mark 8:15 Lit. He
- Mark 8:15 Other mss. read of the Herodians
- Mark 8:17 Lit. he
- Mark 8:18 Cf. Jer 5:21
- Mark 8:20 The Gk. lacks I broke
- Mark 8:20 The Gk. lacks loaves
- Mark 8:22 Lit. they
- Mark 8:22 Lit. him
- Mark 8:22 The Gk. lacks him
- Mark 8:23 Lit. Then he
- Mark 8:24 Lit. He
- Mark 8:25 Lit. he
- Mark 8:25 Lit. his
- Mark 8:26 Lit. he
- Mark 8:26 Other mss. lack or tell anyone in the village
- Mark 8:28 The Gk. lacks Some say
- Mark 8:29 Or Christ
- Mark 8:30 Lit. He
- Mark 8:33 Lit. he
- Mark 8:34 Lit. he
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