Weekly Bible Verses: Mark 9:30-37: Who Is The Greatest?

³⁰They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; ³¹for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” ³²But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.

³³Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was
in the house he asked them, “What were you
arguing about on the way?” ³⁴But they were silent,
for on the way they had argued with one another
who was the greatest. ³⁵He sat down, called the twelve,
and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be
last of all and servant of all.”³⁶Then he took a little child
and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said
to them, ³⁷“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name
welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me
but the one who sent me.”