Gospel of Mark - Four Faiths (Part 2)

Mark 8:14-38 details a crucial period for Jesus and his disciples where Jesus rebukes the disciples for their spiritual misunderstanding about the "yeast" of the Pharisees and Herod, performs a second healing of a blind man, and then Peter declares Jesus is the Messiah. This leads to Jesus' first explicit prediction of his own suffering and death, which Peter rebukes. Finally, Jesus defines the cost of true discipleship, emphasizing the need to deny oneself, take up one's cross, and follow him, even in the face of public shame and the loss of life for the sake of the gospel.