Matthew 16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and trying Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven.

² And He answering, said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘Fair weather, for the heaven is red,’

³ and in the morning, ‘Stormy weather today, for the heaven is red and overcast.’ You know how to discern the face of the heaven, but you are unable to discern the signs of the times!

⁴ “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah.” And He left them and went away.

⁵ And His taught ones came to the other side, and had forgotten to take bread.

⁶ And יהושע  said to them, “Mind! And beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

⁷ And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “Because we brought no bread!”

⁸ But יהושע, aware of this, said to them, “O you of little belief, why do you reason among yourselves because you brought no bread?

⁹ “Do you still not understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you picked up?

¹⁰ “Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you picked up?

¹¹ “How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”

¹² Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

¹³ Now when יהושע  came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His taught ones, saying, “Who do men say the Son of Aḏ

¹⁴ And they said, “Some say Yoḥ

¹⁵ He said to them, “And you, who do you say I am?”

¹⁶ And Shimʽ

¹⁷ And יהושע  answering, said to him, “Blessed are you, Shimʽ

¹⁸ “And I also say to you that you are Kĕ

¹⁹ “And I shall give you the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever you bind on earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever you loosen on earth shall be having been loosened in the heavens.”

²⁰ Then He warned His taught ones that they should say to no one that He is יהושע  the Messiah.

²¹ From that time יהושע  began to show to His taught ones that it was necessary for Him to go to Yerushalayim, and to suffer much from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and to be raised again the third day.

²² And Kĕ

²³ But He turned and said to Kĕ

²⁴ Then יהושע  said to His taught ones, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake, and follow Me.

²⁵ “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it.

²⁶ “For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

²⁷ “For the Son of Aḏ

²⁸ “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death at all until they see the Son of Aḏ