He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters Mark 9:33–37
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34
But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.
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35
He sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
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36
He took a little child and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
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37
“Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”
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Verse 37. Who followeth not us, in that special manner, as Christ’s apostles did. Witham.
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