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then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

When he had left the people and entered the house, his talmidim asked him about the parable.

For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and it passes out into the latrine." (Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.)

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit in her came to him and fell down at his feet.

They brought him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment and asked Yeshua to lay his hand on him.

Taking him off alone, away from the crowd, Yeshua put his fingers into the man's ears, spat, and touched his tongue;

His ears were opened, his tongue was freed, and he began speaking clearly.

It was during that time that another large crowd gathered, and they had nothing to eat. Yeshua called his talmidim to him and said to them,

His talmidim said to him, "How can anyone find enough bread to satisfy these people in a remote place like this?"

He then told the crowd to sit down on the ground, took the seven loaves, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to his talmidim to serve to the people.

After sending them away, Yeshua got into the boat with his talmidim and went off to the district of Dalmanuta.

With a sigh that came straight from his heart, he said, "Why does this generation want a sign? Yes! I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation!"

Taking the blind man's hand, he led him outside the town. He spit in his eyes, put his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

Then he put his hands on the blind man's eyes again. He peered intently, and his eyesight was restored, so that he could see everything distinctly.

Yeshua and his talmidim went on to the towns of Caesarea Philippi. On the way, he asked his talmidim, "Who are people saying I am?"

But, turning around and looking at his talmidim, he rebuked Kefa. "Get behind me, Satan!" he said, "For your thinking is from a human perspective, not from God's perspective!"

Then Yeshua called the crowd and his talmidim to him and told them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him say ‘No' to himself, take up his execution-stake, and keep following me.

For whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will save it.

Indeed, what will it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life?

What could a person give in exchange for his life?