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¹ In dem days, dere was anudda big crowd an' dey een had nuttin' ta eat. Jesus call he disciples an' tell dem, ² "I feel sorry fa dis crowd. Dey bin wit me fa tree days nah an' dey een had no food.

³ If I send dem home wit nuttin' ta eat dey might pass out on da way. Some uh dem come from far.

⁴ He disciples say, "Where we cud get enuff bread to full dese people in a outta da way place like dis?" ⁵ He aks dem, "How much loaf-uh bread yall have? " Dey say, "Seven".

⁶ He make da crowd sit down on da groun'. He take up da seven loaf-uh bread, pray ova dem an' break dem. He give dem ta he disciples ta gee ta da crowd.

⁷ Dey even had couple small fish an' afta he give tanks fa dem he tell da disciples ta serve dem too. ⁸ Dey eat dey bellyfull an' da disciples collec' da leftovers in seven big basket. ⁹ It was bout' four tousan' people dere. Den he tell all dem go.

¹⁰ Right afta dat, he get in da boat wit he disciples an' dey gone round by Dalmanutha.

¹¹ Den da Pharisee dem come out an' start rowin' wit him. Dey did wan see him show a sign from heaven ta tes' him. ¹² He sigh deep in he spirit an' say, "why dis generation lookin' fa sign? I tell ya da trute een ga be no sign fa dis generation."

¹³ Den he lef dem an' gone again in da boat ta da udda side. ¹⁴ Nah da disciples did faget ta take bread wit dem an' dey only had one loaf-uh bread lef in da boat.

¹⁵ He tell dem, " Be on da lookout fa da Pharisee yeast an' Herod yeast."

¹⁶ Da disciples was rowin' one anudda cause' dey een had no bread lef. ¹⁷ When Jesus see what was gern on he say,"Why yall rowin' cause yall een have no more bread? Yall still een understan'? Yall heart hard aye?

¹⁸ Yall have eyes but yall still cyan see? Yall have ears but ya cyan hear? Yall een rememba?

¹⁹ "When I did share five loaf-uh bread wit five tousan' people, how much basket a leftovars yall collec'? ²⁰ When I did share seven loaf-uh bread wit four tousan' people, how much basket uh leftovars yall collec'?" Dey tell him,"Seven." ²¹ He say, "Yall een understan' yet?"

²² Dey did come ta Bethsaida an' da people dere did bring one blind man an' beg Jesus ta touch him.

²³ Jesus take da blind man han' an' lead him outta da village. When he done spit on he eye an' lay he han' on him he aks him, "You cud see anytin'?" He ²⁴ look up an' say, " I see some man who look like trees what walkin'."

²⁵ Den Jesus lay he hand on da man eye an' when da man did open up he eye, he get he sight back an' he cudda see erryting clear, clear. ²⁶ Jesus sen' him back home an' say, " Don' go in da village."

²⁷ Jesus gone wit he disciples into da villages uh Caesarea Phillippi. On da way he aks dem, "Who da people sayin' I is?" ²⁸ Dey say, " John da Baptist. Udda people say 'Elijah' an' uddas say you is one uh da prophet dem." ²⁹ He aks dem, "But who yall say I is?" Peter tell him, "You is da Christ".

³⁰ Jesus warn dem to don' tell nobody bout' him. ³¹ He start ta teach dem how da Son uh Man ga have ta suffa alotta tings an' ga be scorn by da eldas da chief priest an' da scribes dem, an' he ga get kill an' he ga come back ta life afta tree days.

³² He talk dat message in da open. Den Peter talk ta him on da side an' correc' him.

³³ Jesus look at he disciple dem an' he correc' Peter an' say, "Get behind me Satan! You een puttin' ya mind on da tings uh God, but on da tings uh man."

³⁴ Den he call da crowd an' he disciple dem togedda an he say, "If anybody wan' follow me he gatta deny heself, take up he cross an' follow me even ta deat'. ³⁵ Whoever wan' save he life ga loss it, an' whoever loss he life fa my sake an' da gospel ga save it."

³⁶ What use it ga be ta somebody if he get erryting he wan' an' still loss he oon life? ³⁷ What somebody cud even give in return fa he life?

³⁸ "Whoever shame uh me an' my words in dis sweetheartin', sinful generation, da Son uh Man ga be shame uh him when he come in he Fadda glory along wit da holy angels."