16And they reasoned among them selves saying: Because we have not bread. 17Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why doe you reason, because you have not bread? doe you not yet know nor understand? yet have ye your hart blinded? 18having eyes see you not? and having eares heare you not? Neither doe you remember? 19When Mar. 6, 38.* I brake five loaves among five thousand; and how many baskets ful of fragments tooke you up? They say to him: Twelve. 20 Sup. v. 5* When also seaven loaves among foure thousand, how many maundes of fragments tooke you up? And they say to him: Seaven. 21And he said to them: How do you not yet understand?
22And they come to Bethsaida; and they bring to him one blind, and desired him that he would [1] touch him. 23And taking the hand of the blind, he led him forth out of the towne; and spitting into his eyes, imposing his hands, he asked him if he saw anything. 24And looking up, he said: I see men as it were trees, walking. 25After that againe he imposed his hands upon his eyes, and be began to see, and was restored, so that he saw al things clerely. 26And he sent him into his house, saying: Goe into thy house; and if thou enter in to the towne, tel no body.
27And Mt. 16, 13.
Lu. 9, 18.* Jesus went forth and his Disciples into the townes of Cæsaréa-Philippi; and in the way he asked his Disciples, saying to them: Whom doe men say that I am? 28Who answered him, saying: John the Baptist, some Elias, & other some as it were one of the Prophets. 29Then he saith to them, But whom do you say that I am? Peter answering said to him: Thou art Christ. 30And he threatned them that they should not tel any man of him.
31And he began to teach them, that the Sonne of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the Ancients and of the high Priests & the Scribes, and be killed: and after three daies rise againe. 32And he spake the Word openly. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him. 33Who turning, and seeing his Disciples, threatned Peter, saying: Goe behind me Satan, because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but that are of men. 34And calling the multitude together with his Disciples, he said to them: If any man wil folow me, let him deny himself, and take up his crosse, and folow me. 35For he that wil save his life, shal lose it; and he that shal lose his life ″ for me and the Ghospel, shal save it. 36For what shal it profit a man, if he ″ gaine the whole world, & suffer damage of his soule? 37Or what permutation shal a man give for his soule? 38For he that shal be ashamed of me, and of my wordes in this advouterous and sinful Generation, the Sonne of man also wil be ashamed of him, when he shal come in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. VIII.
6. Gave to his disciples.) He serveth the People not immediatly himself, but by the Apostles ministerie: to teach us that we must receive Christes Sacraments and doctrine,
- ↑ Our Saviour used to worke much by touching, & by imposition of hands: that we may learne not to contemne the corporal and external application of holy things, nor to chalenge by the spirit & faith only, as Heretikes doe.
