Douay Rheims Original ↷
Matthew 16 📜 📕 ↷
Demand for a Sign
1 AND there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they demanded him to shew them a sign from Heaven.📜💬📚
2 But he answered & said to them: When it is evening, you say: It will be fair-weather, for the element is red.📜💬📚
3 And 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?📜💬📚
4 The 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.📜💬📚
Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees
5 And when his Disciples were come over the water, they forgot to take bread.📜💬📚
6 Who said to them: Look well and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees & Sadducees.📜💬📚
7 But they thought within them selves saying: Because we took not bread.📜💬📚
8 And JESUS knowing it, said: Why do you think within your selves, O ye of little faith, for that you have not bread?📜💬📚
9 Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?📜💬📚
10 neither the seven loaves, among four thousand men, and how many maunds you took up?📜💬📚
11 Why do you not understand that I said not of bread to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, & Sadducees?📜💬📚
12 Then they understood that he said not they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.📜💬📚
Peter's Confession of Christ
13 And JESUS came into the quarters of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his Disciples, saying: whom say men that the Son of man is?📜💬📚
14 But they said: Some John the Baptist, & othersome Elias, and others Jeremie, or one of the Prophets.📜💬📚
15 JESUS saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?📜💬📚
16 Simon Peter answered & said: Thou art Christ the Son of the living God.📜💬📚
17 And 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.📜💬📚
18 And 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.📜💬📚
19 And 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.📜💬📚
20 Then he commanded his Disciples, that they should tell no body that he was JESUS CHRIST.📜💬📚
Christ's Passion Foretold
21 From 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.📜💬📚
22 And Peter taking him unto him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee, this shall not be unto thee.📜💬📚
23 Who 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.📜💬📚
Take Up Your Cross
24 Then JESUS said to his Disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.📜💬📚
25 For he that will save his life, shall lose it, and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.📜💬📚
26 For 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?📜💬📚
27 For 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.📜💬📚
28 Amen 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.📜💬📚
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