The King warns His disciples about Jewish leaders
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📚✭The Pharisees and the Sadducees came, and testing him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.2 📚✭He answered and said to them, “When evening comes, you say, ‘We’ll have fine weather, for the sky is red.’ 3 📚And in the morning, ‘Today we’ll have a storm, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You hypocrites! You can discern the appearance of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times! 4 📚A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah”. And he left them and went away.
5 📚And when his disciples went to the other side, they forgot to take bread. 6 📚✭Then Jesus said to them, “Watch out and be on your guard about the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees”.
7 📚And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we did not bring any bread”.
8 📚✭Knowing this, Jesus said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you did not bring any bread? 9 📚Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many basketfuls you picked up? 10 📚Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you picked up? 11 📚How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread, but that you should be on your guard about the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”
12 📚✭Then they understood that he told them to be on their guard, not about the yeast in bread, but about the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
The King reveals who He is and what would happen to Him
13 📚✭When Jesus arrived in the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?”
14 📚✭And they said, “Some say that you are John the Baptist. Some say, ‘Elijah.’ And others say, ‘Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ”
15 📚✭He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 📚✭And Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”.
17 📚And Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed✭ are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 📚✭And also I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell✭ will not overcome it. 19 📚✭And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”.
20 📚✭Then he ordered his disciples to tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ. 21 📚✭From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
22 📚✭Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Be it far from you, Lord! This shall not happen to you”.
23 📚But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!✭ To me you are a stumbling block, because you are not thinking of the things of God, but of the things of men”.
The King speaks of discipleship
24 📚✭Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. 25 📚✭For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 📚✭For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 📚✭For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward each one according to his deeds. 28 📚✭Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste of death until they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom”.