^{24 Ref} And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater.

^{25 Ref} And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

^{26 Ref} but ye `are' not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

^{27 Ref} for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

^{28 Ref} `And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,

^{29 Ref} and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

^{30 Ref} that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'