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Who Is the Greatest?

33 aThen He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house He asked them, “What was it you1 disputed among yourselves on the road?”  
34 But they kept silent, for on the road they had adisputed among themselves who would be the bgreatest.  
35 And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, a“If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”  
36 Then aHe took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them,  
37 “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and awhoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.”  

Jesus Forbids Sectarianism

38 aNow John answered Him, saying, “Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow us casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.”  
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Mark 9:35

He sat down and called the twelve (kaqisav efwnhsen touv dwdeka). Deliberate action of Jesus to handle this delicate situation. Jesus gives them the rule of greatness: "If any man would be first (prwtov) he shall be last (esxatov) of all, and minister (diakonov) of all." This saying of Christ, like many others, he repeated at other times (Mark 10:43 f.; Matthew 23:8 ff.; Luke 22:24 f.). Matthew 18:2 says that he called a little child, one there in the house, perhaps Peter's child. Luke 9:47 notes that he "set him by his side." Then Jesus

taking him in his arms (enagkalisamenov, aorist middle participle, late Greek word from agkalh as in Luke 2:28) spoke again to the disciples.


 
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