NEW TESTAMENT

Mark 9:33–37

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33

He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

34

But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.

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.”

36

He took a little child and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

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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