When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”

His disciples answered, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?”

Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people.

They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread.

Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

Jesus Predicts His Death

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”

Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.

I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.” And the disciples were filled with grief.

The Temple Tax

After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”

The Little Children and Jesus

Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”