They came to Bethsaida. And they brought him a blind man and entreated him to touch him. And he took the blind man's hand and brought him away outside the village, and spat in his eyes, and laid his hands on him, and asked him: Do you see anything? He looked again and said: I see people, like seeing trees walking about. Then again he put his hands over his eyes, and the man looked hard, and recovered, and saw all things clearly. And Jesus sent him home, saying: Do not even go into the village.
Then Jesus and his disciples went forth to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he questioned his disciples, asking them: Who do people say that I am? They answered and said: John the Baptist; and others say Elijah, and others one of the prophets. Then he asked them: And you, who do you say I am? Peter answered and said to him: You are the Christ. Then he warned them to tell no one about him.
Then he began to explain to them that the son of man must suffer much and be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and rise up after three days. He was telling them frankly. And Peter laid his hand upon him and tried to warn him, and he turned about and looked at his disciples and reproved Peter and said: Go behind me, Satan; because you do not think the thoughts of God, but of men.
Then summoning the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If anyone wishes to go after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For he who wishes to save his life shall lose it; and he who loses his life for the sake of me and the gospel shall save it. For what does it advantage a man to gain the whole world and pay for it with his life? What can a man give that is worth as much as his life? He who is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his father with the holy angels.
•1 And he said to them: Truly I tell you that there are some of those who stand here who will not taste of death until they see the Kingdom of God arrived in power.
Then after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up on a high mountain, alone, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothing turned very white, gleaming with a whiteness no fuller on earth could give. And Elijah was seen by them, with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter spoke forth and said to Jesus: Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah. For he did not know what to say, for they were very frightened. And there came a cloud that covered them, and there came a voice from the cloud: This is my son whom I love; listen to him. And suddenly looking around they could no longer see anyone with them, except Jesus alone. As they came down from the mountain he charged them that they should tell no one what they had seen, except when the son of man should rise up from the dead. And they kept his commandment, while questioning among themselves what it might mean to rise from the dead. And they questioned him, saying: What do the scribes mean that first Elijah must come? He said to them: Elijah shall come first and restore all things. And how is it written about the son of man, that he must suffer much and be set at nought? But I say to you that Elijah came and they did with him as they wished, as it is written about him.
As they returned to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them. And as soon as they saw him all the multitude were greatly amazed, and at once they ran up to him and greeted him. And he asked them: What are you discussing with them? A man in the crowd answered him: Master, I have brought my son to you. He has a speechless spirit. And when this seizes upon him, it batters him, and he foams and his teeth chatter, and he wastes away. I told your disciples to drive it out, and they were not able to. He answered and said to them: О generation without faith, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him to me. And they brought him to him. When he saw Jesus, the spirit at once convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming. Then Jesus asked the father: How long has this been happening to him? He said: Since he was little; and many times it has thrown him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can, take pity on us and help us. Jesus said to him: If you can? All things are possible to him who believes. At once the father of the boy cried out and said: I believe. Help my unbelief. Jesus seeing that the crowd was growing around him admonished the unclean spirit, saying to it: You speechless deaf spirit, I command you, go forth from him, and never enter him again. And the spirit, with much screaming and struggling, went out of the boy; and he became like a corpse, so that most of the people said he had died. But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up, and he stood. When he had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately: Why were we not able to drive it out? He said to them: This kind cannot be made to go forth except by prayer.
Going from there they proceeded through Galilee, and he did not want anyone to be aware of them; for he was teaching his disciples, and telling them: The son of man will be turned over into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and three days after being killed he will rise up. But they did not understand what he said, and they were afraid to ask him.
They came to Capernaum; and when he was indoors, he asked them: What were you talking about on the way? They were silent, for they had been talking on the way about who was the greatest. He sat down and called the twelve and said to them: Whoever wishes to be first must be last of all and servant of all. And taking a child he set him in the midst of them, and embraced him, and said: Whoever accepts a child like one of these in my name, accepts me; and he who accepts me accepts not me but him who sent me.
John said to him: Master, we saw a man driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not one of our following. But Jesus said: Do not stop him; for there is no one who will exercise power in my name and then will be able to speak ill of me. For he who is not against us is for us. For if anyone gives you a cup of water to drink because you are named as being Christ's, truly I tell you he shall not lose his reward. And if anyone misleads one of these little ones who have faith, it were better for him to have a millstone hung about his neck and be thrown into the sea. And if your hand makes you go amiss, cut it off; it is better for you to go into life one-handed than with both hands to wander off into Gehenna, into the quenchless fire. And if your foot makes you go amiss, cut it off; it is better for you to go into life lame than with both feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye makes you go amiss, pluck it out; it is better for you to go one-eyed into the Kingdom of God than with both eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if the salt is salt no more, with what will you season it? Keep the salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.