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Matthew 16:8-24 English Standard Version (ESV)

8. But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?

9. Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

10. Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

11. How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

12. Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

13. Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

14. And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

15. He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

16. Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

17. And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

18. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rockI will build my church, and the gates of hellshall not prevail against it.

19. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosedin heaven.”

20. Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.

21. From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

22. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.”

23. But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindranceto me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

24. Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.