Mark 8:35 (WEB)
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
Catechism · 1
“Jesus enjoins his disciples to prefer him to everything and everyone, and bids them "renounce all that [they have]" for his sake and that of the Gospel.” — Catechism footnote: Lk 14:33; cf. Mk 8:35.
Fathers and councils · 23
Augustine of Hippo
“And this may be taken to bear the same sense as is expressed by Matthew, when he says, that “He shall reward every man according to his work.”” — editor's note: Mark viii. 34–38.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
After shewing to His disciples the mystery of His passion and resurrection, He exorts them, as well as the multitude, to follow the example of His passion. Wherefore it goes on, “And when He had called the people…
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As is He would say to Peter, Thou indeed dost rebuke Me, who am willing to undergo My passion, but I tell thee, that not only is it wrong to prevent Me from suffering, but neither canst thou be saved unless thou…
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For a man who denies another, be it brother or father, does not sympathize with him, nor grieve at his fate, though he be wounded and die; thus we ought to despise our body, so that if it should be wounded or hurt in…
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But He says not, a man should not spare himself, but what is more, that he should deny himself, as if he had nothing in common with himself, but face danger, and look upon such things as if another were suffering;…
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For at that time the cross appeared shameful, because malefactors were fixed to it.
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
Or else, as a skilful pilot, foreseeing a storm in a calm, wishes his sailors to be prepared; so also the Lord says, “If any one will follow me, &c.”
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For we deny ourselves, when we avoid what we were of old, and strive to reach that point, whither we are newly called. And the cross is taken up by us, when either our body is pained by abstinence, or our soul…
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But because after the cross we must have a new strength, He adds, “and follow me.”
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And this He says, because it may happen that a man may suffer and yet not follow Christ, that is, when he does not suffer for Christ’s sake; for he follows Christ, who walks after Him, and conforms himself to His…
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And life is to be taken in this place for the present life, and not for the substance itself of the soul.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Mark
And therefore He had said, “For whomsoever will save his life shall lose it,” lest any one should suppose this loss to be equivalent to that salvation, He adds, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the…
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Or else He says this, because in time of persecution, our life is to be laid aside, but in time of peace, our earthly desires are to be broken, which He implies when He says, “For what shall it profit a man, &c.” But…
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For that faith which only remains in the mind is not sufficient, but the Lord requires also the confession of the mouth; for when the soul is sanctified by faith, the body ought also to be sanctified by confession.
Read the whole comment - Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Mark
He then who has learned this, is bound zealously to confess Christ without shame. And this generation is called adulterous, because it has left God the true Bridegroom of the soul, and has refused to follow the…
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Him then who shall leave confessed that his God was crucified, Christ Himself also shall confess, not here, where He is esteemed poor and wretched, but in His glory and with a multitude of Angels.
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Mark
There are however some, who confess Christ, because they see that all men are Christians; for if the name of Christ were not at this day in such great glory, the Holy Church would not have so many professors. The…
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But because He had spoken of His glory, in order to shew that His promises were not vain, He subjoins, “Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here who shall not taste of death, till they have…
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Truly it was done with a loving foresight, in order that they, having tasted for a brief moment the contemplation of everlasting joy, might with the greater strength bear up under adversity.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Mark
And He did not declare the names of those who were about to go up, lest the other disciples should feel some touch of human frailty, and He tells it to them beforehand, that they might come with minds better prepared…
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Or else the present Church is called the kingdom of God; and some of the disciples were to live in the body until they should see the Church built up, and raised against the glory of the world; for it was right to…
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But in a mystical sense, Christ is life, and the devil is death, and he tastes of death, who dwells in sin; even now every one, according as he has good or evil doctrines, tastes the bread either of life or of death.…
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Parallel passages
Mark 8:35 and Luke 9:24 share the same wording (15 words).
Matthew 10:39 and Mark 8:35 share the same wording (11 words).
Matthew 16:25 and Mark 8:35 share the same wording (16 words).
Cited together with
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.56.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.56.
Cited together in Catechism §2544.
Cited together in Catechism §2544.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 8:34–38 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.56.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.56.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.56.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.56.