"You must become a slave and serve others."

Jesus left with his disciples and started through Galilee.  He did not want anyone to know about it, because he was teaching the disciples that the Son of Man would be handed over to people who would kill him.  But three days later he would rise to life.  The disciples did not understand what Jesus meant, and they were afraid to ask.

Jesus and his disciples went to his home in Capernaum.  After they were inside the house, Jesus asked them, "What were you arguing about along the way?"  They had been arguing about which one of them was the greatest, and so they did not answer.

After Jesus sat down and told the twelve disciples to gather around him, he said, "If you want the place of honor, you must become a slave and serve others!"

Then Jesus had a child stand near him.  He put his arm around the child and said, "When you welcome even a child because of me, you welcome me.  And when you welcome me, you welcome the one who sent me."

                                                                                         Mark 9:30-37

Contemporary English Version The Holy Bible (New York , NY: American Bible Society 1995)