¹And the Pharisees and Sadducees approached, and testing Him they asked Him to show them a sign out of the skies.

²And He answered and said to them: When evening has come, you say, Fair weather, for the sky is red.

³And in the morning, Today a storm, for the sky is red and overcast. Stage-actors! The appearance of the sky you indeed know how to discern, but the signs of the times you are not able?

⁴An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And He left them and went away.

⁵And when His disciples had come to the other side, they forgot to take bread.

⁶And Jesus said to them: Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

⁷And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, Because we took no bread.

⁸But Jesus, having known this, said to them: Why do you reason among yourselves, O you of little faith, because you take no bread?

⁹Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets you gathered?

¹⁰Nor remember the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

¹¹How do you not understand that I spoke to you not concerning loaves? Beware also of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!

¹²Then they understood that He said to beware not of the leaven of the loaves, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹³Then when Jesus had come into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was questioning His disciples, saying: Whom do the men pronounce Me, the Son of man, to be?

¹⁴And they said: Some indeed, John the Baptist; however others, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

¹⁵He says to them: But you yourselves, whom do you pronounce Me to be?

¹⁶Now Simon Peter, answering, said: You yourself are the Anointed One, the Son of the living God.

¹⁷And Jesus answered and said to him: Blessed are you, Simon Barjona! For flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my Father who is in the heavens.

¹⁸And I myself also say to you that you yourself are Peter, and on this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of hades will not prevail against it.

¹⁹And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever you shall bind on the earth will be bound in the heavens, and whatever you shall loose on the earth will be loosed in the heavens.

²⁰Then He ordered His disciples that they may say to no one that He himself is Jesus the Anointed One.

²¹From that time Jesus the Anointed One began to show to His disciples that it is necessary for Him to go away to Jerusalem and to suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and on the third day to be raised.

²²And Peter, having taken Him aside, began to rebuke Him, saying: Far be it from You, Lord; this certainly will not be to You.

²³And He turned and said to Peter: Go behind Me, adversary! You are a stumbling block to me, for your thoughts are not of those of God, but of the things of men.

²⁴Then Jesus said to His disciples: If anyone desires to come after Me, he should deny himself and he should take up his cross and he should follow Me.

²⁵For whoever shall desire to rescue his life will lose it; however whoever shall lose his life on my account will find it.

²⁶For what will it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but shall lose his being? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his being?

²⁷For the Son of the man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers, and then He will give to each according to his deeds.

²⁸Amen I say to you that there are some of those standing here already who will never taste of death until they have seen the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.