NARRATOR: Jesus and his disciples came down from the mountain and began to go through Galilee but he did not want anyone to know it, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them —
JESUS: The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.
NARRATOR: But his disciples did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. Then they came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house, he asked them —
JESUS: What were you arguing about on the way?
NARRATOR: They were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve around him, and said to them —
JESUS: Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.
NARRATOR: Then he took a little child and stood the child among them. Jesus took the child in his arms.
JESUS: Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me, but the one who sent me.
Mark 9.30-37
Sunday Readings: Wisdom 2.12, 17-20; James 3.16-4.3; Mark 9.30-37