\subsection{Mark 8}
\subsubsection{The Feeding of the Four Thousand}
\VS{1} In those days again there was [a] great crowd, 
and [they] not having anything to eat, 
[\Iesous] having called his disciples says to them: 
\VS{2} I have compassion on the crowd, 
for already three days they remain with me, and they have not anything they may eat. 
\VS{3} And if I send them fasting to their house, 
they will give out in the road, and some of them are from afar. 
\VS{4} And his disciples answered him that: 
How will anyone be able to fill them with loaves here in the desert? 
\VS{5} And he asked them: How any loaves have you? And they said: Seven. 
\VS{6} And he instructs the crowd to recline on the ground\fnGe{}; 
and having taken the seven loaves, 
having given thanks he broke and was giving [them] to his disciples 
in order that they set [them] before [them], and they set [them] before the crowd. 
\VS{7} And they were having [a] few little fish, 
and having blessed them he said to be setting these also before [them]. 
\VS{8} And they were eating and were filled, and they took up [an] abundance of fragments, 
seven baskets. 
\VS{9} Now they were nearly four thousand. And he dispersed them. 
\VS{10} And immediately having embarked in the boat with his disciples he came to the distant \Dalmanoutha.

\subsubsection{The Demand for a Sign}
\VS{11} And the Pharisees came out and began to be debating with him, 
seeking by him [a] sign from heaven, testing him. 
\VS{12} And having groaned in his spirit he says: 
Why does this generation seek [a] sign? 
Truly I say to you that [no]%
\footnote{Actually a 'Semiticism' --- essentially an Aramaic idiom showing up in the Greek. 
More literally this passage reads ``[May God do such and such to me] 
if a sign be given to this generation.'' See I Sam 3:17, Ps. 130:2 LXX }
sign will be given to this generation.
\VS{13} And having again left them having embarked he departed to the other side. 

\subsubsection{The Yeast of the Pharisees and \Herod}
\VS{14} And they forgot to take loaves and except one loaf 
they were not having [any] with them in the boat. 
\VS{15} And he was directing them, saying: 
See, be looking to the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of \Herod%
\footnote{``\Herod'' \sinaiticus{}BD \vulgate{} \koine{}\hesychian{}; 
``the \Herodians'' \papyrus{45}W}. 
\VS{16} And they reasoned with one another that they do not have loaves. 
\VS{17} And having known he says to them: 
Why do you reason that you don't have loaves? 
Do you not yet perceive nor understand? 
You have hardened your heart. 
\VS{18} Having eyes they do not see, and having ears they do not hear? 
And do you not remember, 
\VS{19} when having broken the five loaves to the five thousands 
how many baskets full of scraps you took up? 
They say to him: Twelve. 
\VS{20} When the seven to the four thousand, 
how many baskets full of scraps did you take up? 
And they say: Seven. 
\VS{21} And he was saying to them: Do you not yet understand?

\subsubsection{A Two-state Healing}
\VS{22} And they come into \Bethsaida. 
And they bring to him [a] blind [man], 
and they call upon him in order that he touch [him]. 
\VS{23} And taking hold of the hand of the blind [man], 
he led him out of the village, 
and having spat in his eye, having laid his hands on him, he asked him, Do you see? 
\VS{24} And looking up he was saying: 
I see men, that as trees I see them walking [about]. 
\VS{25} Then again he laid his hands on his eyes, 
and he saw clearly and was restored and saw everything clearly. 
\VS{26} And he sent him to his house saying: 
Neither enter into the village nor speak to anyone in the village.

\subsubsection{\Petros's Confession}
\VS{27} And \Iesous and his disciples went out to the villages of Caesarea of \Phillip; 
and in the road he asked his disciples saying to them: 
Who do people\fnAnthropos{} say I am? 
\VS{28} But they said to him saying that: 
\John the Baptiser, 
and others \Elias, and others that: One of the prophets. 
\VS{29} And he asked him: But who do \underline{you} say I am? 
\Petros answering says to him: You are the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One]. 
\VS{30} And he rebuked them in order that they speak to no one concerning him. 

\subsubsection{First Prediction of \Iesous' Death and Resurrection}
\VS{31} And he began to be teaching that: 
It is necessary [that] the son of man suffer many [things], 
and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes 
and be killed and after three days to arise. 
\VS{32} And he was speaking the word plainly. 
And \Petros taking him aside began to be rebuking him. 
\VS{33} And having turned around and having seen his disciples 
he rebuked \Petros and says: Be getting behind me, 
\Satan, because you do not think on the [things] of God but the [things] of men. 

\subsubsection{Following \Iesous}
\VS{34} And calling upon the crowd with his disciples he said to them: 
If anyone would come after me, 
let him renounce\fnImperative{} himself and take up his cross, and be following me. 
\VS{35} For whoever would save his psyche-life\fnPsyche{} will lose\fnApollumi{} it, 
but whoever loses\fnApollumi{} his psyche-life\fnPsyche{} because of me%
\footnote{``me and" \sinaiticus{}BW \vulgate{} \koine{}; omit: \papyrus{45}D} 
and the gospel will save it. 
\VS{36} For what does it profit [a] person\fnAnthropos{} to gain the whole world 
and forfeit\fnZemioo{} his psyche-life\fnPsyche{}? 
\VS{37} For what will [a] person give in exchange for his psyche-life\fnPsyche{}? 
\VS{38} For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, 
the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{} will also be ashamed of him, 
when he come in the glory of his father with%
\footnote{``with"\sinaiticus{}BD\koine{}\hesychian{} \vulgate{} all; ``and" \papyrus{45}W} 
the holy angels.
