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For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of fifty."
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And they did so, and made them all sit down.
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Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
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So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.
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And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"
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So they answered and said, "John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again."
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He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God."
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And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one,
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saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day."
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Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
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For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.