MT-16:1  The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and

tempting desired him

that he would show them a sign from heaven.

MT-16:2  He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye

say, [It will

be] fair weather: for the sky is red.

MT-16:3  And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day:

for the sky is

red and lowering. O [ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of

the sky; but

can ye not [discern] the signs of the times?

MT-16:4  A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign;

 and there

shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet

Jonas. And he left

them, and departed.

MT-16:5  And when his disciples were come to the other side,

they had forgotten

to take bread.

MT-16:6  Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the

leaven of the

Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

MT-16:7  And they reasoned among themselves, saying, [It is]

because we have

taken no bread.

MT-16:8  [Which] when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye

of little faith,

why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?

MT-16:9  Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five

loaves of the five

thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

MT-16:10  Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how

many baskets

ye took up?

MT-16:11  How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it]

not to you

concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the

Pharisees and of

the Sadducees?

MT-16:12  Then understood they how that he bade [them] not

beware of the leaven

of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the

Sadducees.

MT-16:13  When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi,

he asked his

disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

MT-16:14  And they said, Some [say that thou art] John the

Baptist: some,

Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

MT-16:15  He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

MT-16:16  And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ,

 the Son of

the living God.

MT-16:17  And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou,

 Simon

Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee,

but my Father

which is in heaven.

MT-16:18  And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and

upon this rock I

will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail

against it.

MT-16:19  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of

heaven: and

whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven:

and whatsoever

thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

MT-16:20  Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no

man that he

was Jesus the Christ.

MT-16:21  From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his

disciples, how that

he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders

and chief

priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the

third day.

MT-16:22  Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying,

Be it far from

thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

MT-16:23  But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me,

 Satan: thou

art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that

be of God, but

those that be of men.

MT-16:24  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any [man] will

come after me,

let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

MT-16:25  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and

whosoever will

lose his life for my sake shall find it.

MT-16:26  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole

world, and

lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his

soul?

MT-16:27  For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his

Father with his

angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his

works.

MT-16:28  Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here,

which shall not

taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his

kingdom.

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