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So He sent him home, and added, "Do not even go into the village."
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From that place Jesus and His disciples went to the villages belonging to Caesarea Philippi. On the way He began to ask His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"
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"John the Baptist," they replied, "but others say Elijah, and others, that it is one of the Prophets."
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Then He asked them pointedly, "But you yourselves, who do you say that I am?" "You are the Christ," answered Peter.
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And He strictly forbad them to tell this about Him to any one.
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And now for the first time He told them, "The Son of Man must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and after two days rise to life."
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This He told them plainly; whereupon Peter took Him and began to remonstrate with Him.
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But turning round and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Adversary," He said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."
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Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.
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For whoever is bent on securing his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, will secure it.
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Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?