Weekly Bible Verses: Mark 8: 27-38: Who Do You Say That I Am?

²⁷Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”²⁸And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” ²⁹He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” ³⁰And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

³¹Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo 

great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and 

the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. ³²He said 

all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to 

rebuke him. ³³But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked 

Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your 

mind not on divine things but on human things.”

³⁴He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any 

want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take 

up their cross and follow me. ³⁵For those who want to save their 

life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for 

the sake of the gospel, will save it. ³⁶For what will it profit them 

to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? ³⁷Indeed, what can 

they give in return for their life? ³⁸Those who are ashamed of me 

and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them 

the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory 

of his Father with the holy angels.”