⁴⁶ And there entered a reasoning among them, this, Who may be greater of them?

¹ At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?'

² And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them,

³ and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

⁴ whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.

⁵ `And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

³³ And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, `What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?'

³⁴ and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

³⁵ and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

³⁶ And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,

³⁷ `Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

²⁰ Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,

²¹ and he said to her, `What wilt thou?' She saith to him, `Say, that they may sit -- these my two sons -- one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.'

²² And Jesus answering said, `Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, `We are able.'

⁹ I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;

¹⁴ All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

³ nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --

²⁵ if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

²⁶ let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

¹⁰ in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

³ For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

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

²⁵ 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 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 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.

⁷ And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

⁸ `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

⁹ and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

¹⁰ `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁶ they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.