1.       (To have Direction) Be Receptive

4:1-9

Beside sea

(sower)

8:27-9:1

(at seaside) Caesaria

- Some here will see Kingdom of God

 

4:1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 "Listen! a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil; and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8 And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixty fold and a hundredfold." 9 And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
(Note: Literal translation of Revised Standard Version 1988)

8:27 And went forth Jesus and the disciples of him to the villages of Caesarea (Note: Caesarea on the coast) of Philip: and in the way he questioned the disciples of him saying to them: Whom me say the men to be ? 28 And they told him saying, John the Baptist, and others Elias, but others that one of the prophets. 29 and he questioned the: But ye whom me say ye to be? Answering Peter says to him: Thou art the Christ. 30 And he warned them that no one they might tell about him. 31 And he began to teach them that it behooves the son of man many things to suffer and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and to be killed and after three days to rise again 32 and openly the word he spoke. and taking aside the Peter him began to rebuke him. 33 But he turning round and seeing the disciples of him rebuked Peter and says: Go behind me, Satan, because they mindest not the things of God but the things of men. 34 And calling to him the crowd with the disciples of him he said to them: if anyone wishes after me to come, let him deny himself and take the cross of him, and let him follow me. 35 For whoever wishes the life of him to save, will lose it: but whoever will lose the life of him for the sake of me and the gospel, will save it. 36 For what profits a man to gain the world whole and to be fined the soul of him? 37 For what might a man an exchange of the soul of him 38 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in generation this adulterous and sinful, also the Son of man will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of the Father of him with the angels holy. and he said to them: truly I tell you that these are some here of the ones standing who by no means may taste of death until they see the kingdom of god having come in power.

 

 

 

here a "retreat house at Philip's place at Bethsaida" given that Bethsaida is paired with another remote place in Luke 9:10?