Gospel Lesson

Scripture Reading    Sunday, September 13, 2015    Raemil Billings

Our Gospel Lesson comes from Mark 8:27-38

27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the

way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they

answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the

prophets.” 29 He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered

him, “You are the Messiah.” 30 And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone

about him.

31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great

suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be

killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter

took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and looking at his

disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting

your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

34 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to

become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and

follow me. 35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who

lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 36 For what

will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37 Indeed, what

can they give in return for their life? 38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my

words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also

be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD!