The Second Prediction of
the Passion and The Greatest in the Kingdom
MK 9:30-37
Jesus and his disciples left from there and
began a journey through Galilee,
but he did not wish anyone to know about it.
He was teaching his disciples and telling them,
“The Son of Man is to be handed over to men
and they will kill him,
and three days after his death the Son of Man
will rise.”
But they did not understand the saying,
and they were afraid to question him.
They came to Capernaum and, once inside the
house,
he began to ask them,
“What were you arguing about on the way?”
But they remained silent.
They had been discussing among themselves on the
way
who was the greatest.
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to
them,
“If anyone wishes to be first,
he shall be the last of all and the servant of
all.”
Taking a child, he placed it in their midst,
and putting his arms around it, he said to them,
“Whoever receives one child such as this in my
name, receives me;
and whoever receives me,
receives not me but the One who sent me.”