¹⁹ saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit."

⁷ He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

⁸ "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

⁹ and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

¹⁰ But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.

¹¹ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

¹ In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"

² Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,

³ and said, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

⁹ But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

¹⁰ to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God."

¹¹ They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

¹⁷ Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

⁸ and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

⁹ I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say.