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They did what he told them and had them all sit down.
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Then he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and began giving them to the talmidim to distribute to the crowd.
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Everyone ate as much as he wanted; and they took up what was left over, twelve baskets full of broken pieces.
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Once when Yeshua was praying in private, his talmidim were with him; and he asked them, "Who are the crowds saying I am?"
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They answered, "Yochanan the Immerser; but others say Eliyahu, and others that some prophet of long ago has risen."
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"But you," he said to them, "who do you say I am?" Kefa answered, "The Mashiach of God!"
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However, he, warning them, ordered them to tell this to no one,
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adding, "The Son of Man has to endure much suffering and be rejected by the elders, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and he has to be put to death; but on the third day, he has to be raised to life."
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Then to everyone he said, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him say `No' to himself, take up his execution-stake daily and keep following me.
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For whoever tries to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life on my account will save it.
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What will it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but destroys or forfeits his own life?