26.05.2019 Mark 8:34-37

”Sitten Jeesus kutsui luokseen väkijoukon ja opetuslapsensa ja sanoi heille: ”Jos joku tahtoo kulkea minun perässäni, hän kieltäköön itsensä, ottakoon ristinsä ja seuratkoon minua. Sillä joka tahtoo pelastaa elämänsä, kadottaa sen, mutta joka kadottaa elämänsä minun ja evankeliumin tähden, pelastaa sen. Mitä se hyödyttää ihmistä, vaikka hän voittaisi omakseen koko maailman mutta saisi sielulleen vahingon? Sillä mitä ihminen voi antaa sielunsa lunnaiksi?”

Markus 8:34-37 FINRK

Mark 8:34-37 Amplified Bible (AMP)

³⁴ Jesus called the crowd together with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and ^[a]take up his cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]. ³⁵ For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life [in this world] for My sake and the gospel’s will save it [from the consequences of sin and separation from God]. ³⁶ For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world [with all its pleasures], and forfeit his soul? ³⁷ For what will a man give in exchange for his soul and eternal life [in God’s kingdom]?

Footnotes:Mark 8:34 See note Matt 10:38.

Matthew 10:38 Amplified Bible (AMP)

³⁸ And he who does not take his ^[a]cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me] is not worthy of Me.

Footnotes:

Matthew 10:38 The historical background behind this statement is that those who were about to be crucified had to carry the crossbeam to which they would be nailed or bound. In addition to the terrible agony that crucifixion inflicted, it was such a great indignity that some of the Roman writers used the word cross as a curse word in the expression “Go to a bad cross!” (Lat i in malam crucem).