¹⁹ Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.

⁷ And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

⁸ When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,

⁹ And then the giver of the feast will come to you and say, Give your place to this man; and you, with shame, will have to take the lowest seat.

¹⁰ But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there.

¹¹ For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

¹ In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

² And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,

³ And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

⁴⁴ How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

⁹ But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man:

¹⁰ To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.

¹¹ And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.

¹⁷ Then they put their hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came on them.

⁸ And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.

⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

⁹ I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.