Matthew

Chapter 16

1 And coming the Pharisees and Sadducees, tempting they asked him, a sign from the heaven to show to them.

2 He but answering said to them: Evening coming, you say: Fair weather; reddens for the heaven.

3 And in the morning; To-day a storm; is red for lowering the heaven. Hypocrites, the truly face of the heaven you know to judge, the but signs of the times not can you?

4 A generation evil and adulterous a sign seeks; and a sign not shall be given to her, except the sign of Jonas the prophet. And leaving them, he went away.

5 And coming the disciples of him to the other side, had forgotten loaves to take.

6 The and Jesus said to them: Look and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

7 They and reasoned among themselves saying: Because loaves not we have brought.

8 Knowing and the Jesus said: Why reason you among yourselves, O you weak of faith, because loaves not you have brought? 

9 Not yet perceive you, nor remember you the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

10 Nor the seven loaves of the for thousand, and how many large baskets you took up?

11 Why not do you perceive, that not about bread I spoke to you to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

12 Then they understood, that not he did say beware of the leaven of the bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

13 Coming and the Jesus into the parts of Caesarea of the Philip, asked the disciples of him, saying: Who me say the men to be, the son of the man?

14 They and said: Some, John the dipper; others and, Elias; other and, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

15 He says to them: You but who me say to be?

16 Answering and Simon Peter said:Thou art the Anointed, the son of the God the living.

17 And answering the Jesus said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonas; for flesh and blood not it has revealed to thee, but the Father of me, that in the heavens.

18 Also I and to thee say, that thou art a rock, and upon this the rock I will build of me the church, and gates of hades not shall prevail against her.

19 And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens; and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth, shall be bound in the heavens; and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth, shall be loosed in the heavens.

20 Then he charged the disciples of him, that no one they should tell that he is the Anointed.

21 From that time began the Jesus to show to the disciples of him, that must he to go to Jerusalem, and many (things) to suffer from the elders and high-priests and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be raised.

22 And taking aside him the Peter, began to reprove him, saying: Be it far from thee, O lord; not not shall be to thee this.

23 He but turning said to the Peter: Go thou behind of me, adversary; a stumbling block of me thou art; for not thou regardest the (things) of the God, but those of the men.  

24 Then the Jesus said to the disciples of him: If any one wish after me to come, let him deny himself, and let him bear the cross of him, and follow me.

25 Whoever for may wish the life of him to save, shall lose her; whoever and may lose the life of him on account of me, shall find her.

26 What for is profited a man if the world whole he may win, the and life of him he may forfeit? or what shall give a man in exchange for the life of him?

27 Is about for the the son of the man to come in the glory of the Father of him, with the messengers of him, and then he will render to each one according to the behavior of him.

28 Indeed I say to you, there are some of those here having stood, who not not shall taste of death, till they may see the son of the man coming in the royal majesty of him.

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