42 Mark

13 Isaiah 42:10-25
 ¹⁰Sing to Yahvah a new song, and his praise from the ends of the land, you who go down to the sea and all that is in it; the islands and those who live in them.
¹¹Let the wilderness and its towns rejoice; let Kedar be meadows; let the inhabitants of the steep rocks sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
¹²Let them give glory to Yahvah and declare his praise in the islands.
¹³Yahvah will go forth as a mighty man, he will stir up zealousness like a man of war; he will shout and become valiant; he will slay his enemies.
¹⁴I have for a long time held my peace; I have kept silent, I have been patient like a woman in travail; I have remained speechless and completely confounded.
¹⁵I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
¹⁶And I will lead the blind by a way that they do not know; and in the paths that they have not known I will make them walk; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I have done to them and have not forsaken them.
¹⁷They will be turned back, they will be greatly ashamed, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, You are our gods.

¹⁸Hear, deaf. Understand and see, blind.
¹⁹Who is blind but my servant? Who is deaf as the messenger that I send? Who is blind as the ruler? Who is blind like Yahvah's servant?
²⁰I gave you counsel, but you did not observe it; I opened your ears, but you did not hear.
²¹Yahvah is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law and make it honorable.
²²But this is a people robbed and oppressed; all the young men are snared, and they are hidden in prison houses; they have become prey, and there is no one to deliver; and trampled on, and there is no one to restore.
²³Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen to the other counsel?
²⁴Who gave Jacob to be trod under foot and Israel as spoil? Was it not Yahvah, because we have sinned against him? For we would not walk in his ways, nor were we obedient to his law.
²⁵Therefore he has poured on them the fury of his anger and the fierceness of battle; and it has set them on fire all around, yet they did not know it; and it burned them, yet they did not lay it to heart.

42 Mark 8:22-26
²²And he came to Bethsaida; and they brought to him a blind man, and they begged him to touch him.
²³And he took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside the town; and he spat on his eyes and put his hands on him and asked him what he saw.
²⁴And he looked and said, I see men walking, like trees.
²⁵Again, he put his hands over his eyes and he was restored and saw everything clearly.
²⁶And he sent him to his house saying, Do not even enter into the town, nor tell it to anyone in the town.

42 Mark 8:27-33
²⁷And Jesus went out, and his disciples, to the towns of Caesarea of Philippi; and on the road, he asked his disciples, saying to them, Who do men say that I am?
²⁸They said, John the baptist; and others, Elijah; yet others, 1 of the prophets.
²⁹Jesus said to them, But you, who do you say I am? Simon Peter answered, saying to him, You are anointed son of the living god.
³⁰And he warned them not to tell any man about him.
³¹Then he began to teach them that the son of man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and rise again on the 3rd day.
³²And he spoke that word openly. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
³³But he turned around and looked on his disciples, and he rebuked Simon saying, Get behind me, accuser; for you are not thinking of the things of god, but of men.

42 Mark 8:34-38
³⁴And Jesus called the people together with his disciples, and said to them, He who wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
³⁵For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, and the sake of my thinking, will save it.
³⁶For how could a man be benefited if he should gain the whole world and lose his life?
³⁷Or, what could a man give in exchange for his life?
³⁸Therefore whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this sinful and adulterous generation, the son of man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his father with his holy angels.