15. And they did so. And they caused them all to recline to eat.
16. Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish, he gazed up to heaven, and he blessed and broke and distributed them to his disciples, in order to set them before the crowd.
17. And they all ate and were satisfied. And twelve baskets of fragments were taken up, which were left over from them.
18. And it happened that, when he was praying alone, his disciples also were with him, and he questioned them, saying: "Who do the multitudes say that I am?"
19. But they answered by saying: "John the Baptist. But some say Elijah. Yet truly, others say that one of the prophets from before has risen again."
20. Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" In response, Simon Peter said, "The Christ of God."
21. But speaking sharply to them, he instructed them not to tell this to anyone,
22. saying, "For the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the leaders of the priests and the scribes, and be killed, and on the third day rise again."
23. Then he said to everyone: "If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me.
24. For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.
25. For how does it benefit a man, if he were to gain the whole world, yet lose himself, or cause himself harm?
26. For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words: of him the Son of man will be ashamed, when he will have arrived in his majesty and that of his Father and of the holy Angels.