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If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance."

Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?" "Twelve," they answered.

"And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?" "Seven," they said.

Turning and looking at His disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

For they were all so terrified that Peter did not know what else to say.

But they were silent, for on the way they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest.

"Do not stop him." Jesus replied, "For no one who performs a miracle in My name can turn around and speak evil of Me.

For whoever is not against us is for us.

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Some Pharisees came to test Him. "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" they inquired.

But Jesus told them, "Moses wrote this commandment for you because your hearts were hard.

'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,