Matthew 16

¹And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they demanded him to shew them a sign from Heaven.

²But he answered & said to them: When it is evening, you say: It will be fair-weather, for the element is red.

³And in the morning: This day there will be a tempest, for the element doth glow and lower. The face therefore of the element you have skill to discern: & the signs of times can you not?

⁴The naughty and adulterous Generation seeketh for a sign: and there shall not a sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the Prophet. And he left them and went away.

⁵And when his Disciples were come over the water, they forgot to take bread.

⁶Who said to them: Look well and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees & Sadducees.

⁷But they thought within themselves saying: Because we took not bread.

⁸And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have not bread?

⁹Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?

¹⁰neither the seven loaves, among four thousand men, and how many maunds you took up?

¹¹Why do you not understand that I said not of bread to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, & Sadducees?

¹²Then they understood that he said not they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹³And Jesus came into the quarters of Cæsarea Philippi: and he asked his Disciples, saying: whom say men that the Son of man is?

¹⁴But they said: Some John the Baptist, & othersome Elias, and others Jeremie, or one of the Prophets.

¹⁵Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?

¹⁶Simon Peter answered & said: Thou art Christ the Son of the living God.

¹⁷And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh & blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father which is in Heaven.

¹⁸And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this Rock will I build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

¹⁹And I will give to thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in the Heavens: and whatsoever thou shalt loose in earth, it shall be loosed also in the Heavens.

²⁰Then he commanded his Disciples, that they should tell nobody that he was Jesus Christ.

²¹From that time Jesus began to shew his Disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, & suffer many things of the Ancients & Scribes and Chief-Priests, and be killed, and the third day rise again.

²²And Peter taking him unto him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee, this shall not be unto thee.

²³Who turning said to Peter: Go after me Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.

²⁴Then Jesus said to his Disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

²⁵For he that will save his life, shall lose it, and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.

²⁶For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and sustain the damage of his soul? Or what permutation shall a man give for his soul?^†

²⁷For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.^†

²⁸Amen I say to you, there be some of them that stand here, that shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his Kingdom.