And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world

but lose your own soul?

Mark 8:36

Jesus and his disciples left Galilee 

and went up to the villages near Caesarea Philippi.

As they were walking along, he asked them,

“Who do people say I am?”

“Well,” they replied, some say John the Baptist,

some say Elijah, 

and others say you are one of the other prophets.”

Then he asked them,

“But who do you say I am?”…

Mark 8:27-29

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said,

“Why are you arguing about having no bread?

Don’t you know or understand even yet?

Are your hearts too hard to take it in?

‘You have eyes—can’t you see?

You have ears—can’t you hear?’

Don’t you remember anything at all?

When I fed the 5,000 with five loaves of bread,

how many baskets of leftovers did you pick up afterward?”

“Twelve,” they said.

“And when I fed the 4,000 with seven loaves,

how many large baskets of leftovers did you pick up?”

“Seven,” they said.

“Don’t you understand yet?” he asked them.

Mark 8:17-21

But Jesus spoke to them at once.

“Don’t be afraid,” he said.

“Take courage! I am here!”

Then he climbed into the boat,

and the wind stopped.

They were totally amazed.

Mark 6:50-51

When Jesus woke up,

he rebuked the wind and said to the waves,

“Silence! Be Still!”

Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm.

Then he asked them,

“Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

The disciples were absolutely terrified.

“Who is this man?” they asked each other.

“Even the wind and waves obey him!”

Mark 4:39-41

Then he added,

“Pay close attention to what you hear.

The closer you listen,

the more understanding you will be given—

and you will receive even more.

To those who listen to my teaching,

more understanding will be given…

Mark 4:24-25

The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others.

And the seed that fell on good soil

represents those who hear and accept God’s word

and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times

as much as had been planted!”

Mark 4:14, 20

Then Jesus said to them,

“The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people,

and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath.

So the Son of Man is Lord,

even over the Sabbath!”

Mark 2:27-28

As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus

sitting at his tax collector’s booth.

“Follow me and be my disciple,”

Jesus said to him.

So Levi got up and followed him.

Mark 2:14

But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees

saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners,

they asked his disciples,

“Why does he eat with such scum?”

When Jesus heard this, he told them,

“Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.

I have come to call not those who think they are righteous,

but those who know they are sinners.”

Mark 2:16-17