³⁵ Jesus sat down. He told the 12 apostles to come to him. Then he said to them, ‘If you want to be the leader, make yourself less important than everyone else. You must become the servant of everyone.’

³⁶ Then Jesus brought a child to stand in the middle of them all. He took hold of the child and he said to the disciples, ³⁷ ‘If someone accepts a child like this because of me, then that person also accepts me. If he accepts me, then he is not only accepting me. He is also accepting my Father God, who sent me.’^[a]