25. Then he laid hands on his eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.
26. Then he sent him home and said, “Do not even go into the village.”
27. Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”
28. They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.”
29. And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Messiah.”
30. Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.
31. He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days.
32. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
34. He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
35. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.
36. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
37. What could one give in exchange for his life?
38. Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”