Mark 8:34
32 He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
33 But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
36 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- KJV
- And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- WEB
- He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- ASV
- And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples, and said unto them, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- DARBY
- And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
- BLB
- And having summoned the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- ÅB
- Og han kalte folket til seg tillikemed sine disipler og sa til dem: Den som vil følge etter meg, han må fornekte seg selv og ta sitt kors opp og følge meg.
- OTB
- Så kalte han folkemengden til seg sammen med sine disipler og sa: "Hvis noen vil være min disippel, må han fornekte seg selv, ta opp sitt kors, og følge meg.
- B1930
- Og han kalte folket til sig tillikemed sine disipler og sa til dem: Den som vil følge efter mig, han må fornekte sig selv og ta sitt kors op og følge mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 10:38
and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
Read in contextLuke 14:26–27
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Read in contextJohn 10:27
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
Read in contextGalatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Read in contextGalatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Read in context1 Kings 14:8
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
Read in context1 John 3:16
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Read in contextNumbers 14:24
But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
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