Mark 8:34

Moffatt

Mark 8:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Called

Mark 7:14

Luke 9:23

Luke 20:45

Whosoever

Take

Follow

General references

Matthew 10:38

Luke 20:45

Bible References

Called

Then he called the crowd to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this:

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,

Whosoever

If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched.

If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could.

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

Take

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

As they went out they met a Cyrenian called Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' ??the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

(Not a day but I am at death's door! I swear it by my pride in you, brothers, through Christ Jesus our Lord.)

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

But we are informed that some of your number are loafing, busybodies instead of busy.

Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin,

Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

Follow

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;

"Lord," said Simon Peter, "where are you going?" Jesus replied, "I am going where you cannot follow me at present; later on you will follow me."

(he said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God); then he added, "Follow me."

Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy

since I know my tent must be folded up very soon ??as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

General references

he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,