Jesus Predicts His Death and Calls Disciples to Take Up the Cross
Mark 8:31-9:1
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Chapter 8
31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and rise after three days.32He spoke the word boldly. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.33But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and says, "Get behind me, Satan! You are not thinking the things of God but the things of men."34Calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me."35For whoever wants to save his soul will lose it; but whoever loses his soul for my sake and the gospel's will save it.36For what does it profit a human to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?37For what could a person give in exchange for his soul?38For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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Chapter 9
1And he said to them, "Amen, I say to you that there are some of those standing here who will by no means taste death until they see the Kingdom of God having come in power."