Mark 9:35-37

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³⁵ He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”^{(A) 36} Then he took a little child and put it among them, and taking it in his arms he said to them,^{(B) 37} “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”^(C)