Mark chapter 8 begins with the event in which Jesus fed four thousand people with seven loaves and a few small fish, and records how He rebuked the Pharisees who demanded a sign and taught His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod. The disciples misunderstood Jesus’ words as being about a matter of food, and Jesus made them remember the events of feeding the five thousand and the four thousand and pointed out their unperceiving hearts. Then, after healing a blind man at Bethsaida in two stages, He asked His disciples on the way to Caesarea Philippi about His own identity. Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ, but when Jesus said that He would suffer, be killed, and rise again, Peter tried to stop Him. Jesus rebuked Peter for not being mindful of the things of God but of the things of men. Finally, He taught that whoever would follow Jesus must deny himself and take up his own cross, and that even if one gains the whole world, it is of no profit if he loses his own life. This chapter shows that we must go beyond confessing with the mouth who Jesus is, and rightly understand and follow the Christ who works through suffering, the Cross, and the resurrection.
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